Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London


"You understand the point I am making," Paula took up. "Here are the
pair of you. Neither will see forty again. You're a pair of hard-
bitten sinners. You've gone through hardship and exposure that dropped
others all along the way. You've had your fun and folly. You've
roughed and rowdied over the world--"


"Played the wild ass," Graham laughed in.


"And drunk deep," Paula added. "Why, even alcohol hasn't burned you.
You were too tough. You put the other fellows under the table, or into
the hospital or the grave, and went your gorgeous way, a song on your
lips, with tissues uncorroded, and without even the morning-after
headache. And the point is that you are successes. Your muscles are
blond-beast muscles, your vital organs are blond-beast organs. And
from all this emanates your blond-beast philosophy. That's why you are
brass tacks, and preach realism, and practice realism, shouldering and
shoving and walking over lesser and unluckier creatures, who don't
dare talk back, who, like Dick's prizefighting boys, would blow up in
the first round if they resorted to the arbitrament of force."

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