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.
JACK LONDONStrength is an empty shell.
More Jack London Quotes
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In a saturated population life is always cheap.
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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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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
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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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The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
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But I am I. And I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind
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I would rather be ashes than dust.
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Intelligent men are cruel. Stupid men are monstrously cruel.
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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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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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One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
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He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.
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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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