Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


She sighed. Life was a strange puzzle. Perhaps Mercedes Higgins
was right in her cruel statement of the terms of existence.


"What of it," Billy laughed harshly, as if in answer to her
unuttered questions. "It's dog eat dog, I guess, and it's always
ben that way. Take that scrap outside there. They killed each
other just like the North an' South did in the Civil War."


"But workingmen can't win that way, Billy. You say yourself that
it spoiled their chance of winning."

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