Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value.

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Jack London was a 19th-century American author, journalist and social activist. John Griffith London, better known as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American authors to become an international celebrity and earn a large fortune from writing. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Work — The value of effort, discipline, and meaningful labour

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