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 LONDONIt’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
More Jack London Quotes
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Affluence means influence.
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub’s fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.
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Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.
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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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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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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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Too much is written by the men who can’t write about the men who do write.
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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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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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