"A bone to the dog is not charity.……" — Jack London
"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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95 Quotes by Jack London
Jack London has 95 quotes on this site.
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the…
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze…
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A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold…
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You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises…
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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
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Thus is Jesus in all respects fitted for his mighty work of redeeming. He is very man and very God.…
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A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth.…
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Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and…
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