Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
JACK LONDONHaving no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.
More Jack London Quotes
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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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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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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.
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The Law is a lie, and through it men lie most shamelessly.
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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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The function of man is to live, not to exist.
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Age is never so old as youth would measure it.
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Affluence means influence.
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Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.
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I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
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Not all the monsters have fangs.
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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