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A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.

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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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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.

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The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb upward to civilization.

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And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down.

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It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself

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The hand descended. Nearer and nearer it came. It touched the ends of his upstanding hair. He shrank down under it. It followed down after him, pressing more closely against him. Shrinking, almost shivering. He still managed to hold himself together. It was a torment, this hand that touched him and violated his instinct. He could not forget in a day all the evil that had been wrought him at the hands of men.

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I was five years old the first time I got drunk.

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I was jealous; therefore I loved.

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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

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Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

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In a saturated population life is always cheap.

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I am first of all a white man, and only then a socialist.

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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

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Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.

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The greatest of the arts is the conquering of men.

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San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

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Make good the good in you...and you will slowly steal into the Hawaiian heart, which is all of softness, and gentleness, and sweetness.

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The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.

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My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?

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