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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…
- He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started…
- He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of pain left him.…
- ...men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were…
- Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless…
- Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his…
- Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity…
- The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things,…
- [Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers] A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the…
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