Quote by Jack London
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not w

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. – Jack London

Other quotes by Jack London

Show me a man with a tattoo and I’ll show you a man with an interesting past. – Jack London

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Tattoos
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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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Helping
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Other Quotes from
Carpe Diem
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We are always getting ready to live but never living. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? – Horace

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Carpe Diem

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Carpe Diem

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust. – Henry S. Haskins

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Carpe Diem

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Every day is intense and alive, whether its travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of. – Josh Lucas

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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread. – Charles Caleb Colton

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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. – Winston Churchill

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When I was in Paris, all of the German refugees began to flow in and it was a very sad time. – Elliott Carter

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