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This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.


Robert W. Service

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W. P. KINSELLA The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
W. MARK FELT I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
W. MARK FELT I have to do this my way.
W. MARK FELT I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat.
W. MARK FELT I never leaked information to Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else!
W. MARK FELT The more the soul knows, the more she loves, and loving much, she tastes much.
W. H. MURRAY All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.
W. H. MURRAY Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
W. H. MURRAY It was a proof of Welsh good nature: so long as I had a friend that knew and could introduce me, the...
W. H. DAVIES I had now been in the United States of America something like five years, working here and there as ...
W. H. DAVIES Summer boarders often left clothes behind, and of what use were they to the landladies, for no rag-a...
W. H. DAVIES I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go...
W. H. DAVIES I dislike society because conversation exhausts my brain more than silent thought - again, I cannot ...
W. H. DAVIES However careful a tramp may be to avoid places where there is abundant work, he cannot always succee...
W. H. DAVIES My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to al...
W. H. DAVIES It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I can...
W. H. DAVIES I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk tw...
W. H. DAVIES Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well fr...
W. H. DAVIES But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
W. H. DAVIES Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
W. H. DAVIES How the snow falls in the north! Flake on flake falling incessantly, until the small dingles are alm...
W. H. DAVIES Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him w...
W. H. DAVIES What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
W. H. DAVIES