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 LONDONKill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
More Jack London Quotes
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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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Affluence means influence.
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The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
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To be able to forget means sanity.
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He had come to know quite thoroughly the world in which he lived. His outlook was bleak and materialistic. The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetness of spirit did not exist.
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Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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