Wise thoughts and quotes 8
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The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.
Jack London
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Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.
Jack London
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Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Jack London
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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.
Jack London
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London
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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.
Jack London
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
Jack London
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Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
Agatha Christie
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Time is the best killer.
Agatha Christie
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Women can accept the fact that a man is a rotter, a swindler, a drug taker, a confirmed liar, and a general swine, without batting an eyelash, and without its impairing their affection for the brute in the least. Women are wonderful realists.
Agatha Christie
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It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.
Agatha Christie
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You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.
Agatha Christie
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The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.
Agatha Christie
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If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.
Agatha Christie
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie
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The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
Agatha Christie
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It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.
Agatha Christie
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A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
William Blake
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Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.
William Blake
