Quote by Jack London
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now be

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate. – Jack London

Other quotes by Jack London

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? – Jack London

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Time
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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
Beauty
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Beauty and folly are generally companions. – Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish

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Beauty

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself. – Lindsay Wagner

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Beauty

For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer. – Xenophon

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Beauty

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics – an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. – Douglas Sirk

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Beauty

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Ceremony and ritual spring from our heart of hearts: those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner deny us bread than dare alter the observance of tradition. – F. Gonzalez-Crussi

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great. – Isaac Watts

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Change

You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting its going to last forever, and you have a lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time. – Jenna Fischer

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Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. – Mary Astell

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