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...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system and this made his damnation certain.
Jack London
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Jack London
Age: 40 †
Born: 1876
Born: January 12
Died: 1916
Died: November 22
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She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
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They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.
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