A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
JACK LONDONIntelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
More Jack London Quotes
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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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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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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.
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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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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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So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.
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Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past.
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