A man with a club is a law-maker.
JACK LONDONA bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
More Jack London Quotes
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea’s breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.
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Alcohol tells truth, but its truth is not normal.
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.
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I’d rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
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