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

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


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

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

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There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.

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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

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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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This page presents the quote "Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.". Author of this quote is Jack London. This quote is about cards, matter, life,.