Strength is an empty shell.
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, 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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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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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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The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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There’s only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the dissapointments.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.
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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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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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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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You look back and see how hard you worked and how poor you were, and how desperately anxious you were to succeed, and all you can remember is how happy you were.
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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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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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