Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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 not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
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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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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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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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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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Don’t write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.
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Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.
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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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It’s better to stand by someone’s side than by yourself
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A man with a club is a law-maker.
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The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.
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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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To be able to forget means sanity.
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