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We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond.

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

There will always be a frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand.

Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

In life sometimes, in the universe, you have to close some doors to have others open.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.