Quote#Wisdom
Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club,…
Quote byJack London · 1876–1916
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Getting into Print", first published in 1903 in The Editor magazine.
English (original)
Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.
— Jack London
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