“I wonder why it is the man who pleads for mercy never gives it.”

Source: The Quick and the Dead

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Louis L'Amour 65
Novelist, short story writer 1908–1988

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Invitas nullum nisi cum quo, Cotta, lavaris
et dant convivam balnea sola tibi
mirabar quare numquam me, Cotta, vocasses:
iam scio me nudum displicuisse tibi.
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