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In his gambling, he had one besetting weakness
faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.

And at the instant he knew, he ceased to know.

Sled shot downhill at their heels.

Life that did not yearn toward life was in fair way toward ceasing.

Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself.

He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in their significances.

For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.

Took out six fish. One Ear didn't get no fish. I came back to the bag afterward an' got 'm his fish." "We've

Every book was a peep-hole into the realm of knowledge. His hunger fed upon what he read, and increased.

Some maundering fancy of going out with the tide suddenly obsessed me.

It was the worst hurt he had ever known.

He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.

Who Has Won to Mastership

Strength is an empty shell.

The dominant primordial beast was strong in Buck

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.

PLEASE DO NOT ENTER WITHOUT KNOCKING.
PLEASE DO NOT KNOCK.

Never did he fail to respond savagely to the chatter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted pine.

Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

Now, you red-eyed devil," he said,

There is such a thing as anesthesia of pain, engendered by pain too exquisite to be borne.

The same amazing blush he had seen once

Wolf - tis what he is. He's not blackhearted like some men. 'Tis no heart he has at all.

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

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.

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.

I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.

In dim ways he recognised in man the animal that had fought itself to primacy over the other animals of the Wild.

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

With the last remnant of his strength

My mistake was in ever opening the books.

There is no God but Fact, and Mr. Everhard is its prophet,

... and from that moment Buck hated him with a bitter and deathless hatred.

Again from its brumal sleep

Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN.

How strange and changeful is life! How small a thing is needed to make or ruin us!

Life's a game and men the gamblers. They'll stake their whole pile on the one chance in a thousand. Take away that one chance, and - they won't play.

The dark circle became a dot on the moon-flooded snow as Spitz disappeared from view.

To be able to forget means sanity.

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

Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.

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

Sagacious agent could, I suppose, be desired,

I was not made for the desk and counting-house, for petty business squabbling, and legal jangling.

There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.

But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind

the human soul is a lonely thing

The clay of White Fang had been molded until he became what he was, morose and lonely, unloving and ferocious, the enemy of all his kind.

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

Affluence means influence.

He had been suddenly jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primordial.

woe of unnumbered generations

Dark spruce frowned on either side of the frozen waterway.

It is not in what you succeed in doing that you get your joy, but in the doing of it.

A man with a club is a law-maker.

It is far easier to see brave men die than to hear a coward beg for life.

impossible . . . and . . . and I so loved our partnership, and was proud of it. Don't you see? - I can't go on being your partner if you make

Also he saw one dog, that would neither conciliate nor obey, finally killed in the struggle for mastery.

I'd rather be ashes than dust

Is love so gross a thing that it must feed upon publication and public notice ? It would seem so.

never thought about it so abstractly," he confessed. "I've been too busy puzzling over why I came here.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

Their hate bound them together as love could never bind.

Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

Buck found it to be cheaper to mend his ways than to retaliate.

Let beauty be your end. Why should you mint beauty into gold? Anyway, you can't;

He was never disturbed over why a thing happened. How it happened was sufficient for him.

This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

They seemed to share the kindliness and largeness of John Thornton.

Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value.

Of course it was beautiful; but there was something more than beauty in it, something more stingingly splendid which had made beauty its handmaiden.

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

At once he became an enigma. One side or the other of his nature was perfectly comprehensible; but both sides together were bewildering.

Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain.

In a flash Buck knew it. The time had come. It was to the death.

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

puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting

Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

Sacredam!" he cried, when his eyes lit upon Buck. "Dat one dam bully dog! Eh? How moch?

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

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

He had killed man, the noblest game of all, and he had killed in the face of the law of club and fang.

Then the business game is to make profits out of others, and to prevent others from making profits out of you.

Lobby - a peculiar institution for bribing, bulldozing, and corrupting the legislators who were supposed to represent the people's interests.

Rise from the mud, let the sunshine clense your eyes, and thrust your shoulders into the stars!

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

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

you don't know the game of buying brains. I do. That's my specialty. I'm going to make money out of them,

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

Thus he learned hurt; and on top of it he learned to avoid hurt, first, by not incurring the risk of it...

For he could scarcely make them move together to grip a twig, and they seemed remote from his body and from him.

Bitter rage was his, but never blind rage. In passion to rend and destroy, he never forgot that his enemy was in like passion to rend and destroy.

Age is never so old as youth would measure it.

White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.

Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

They, as a class, believed that they alone maintained civilization.

Beauty is the only master to serve.