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The greatest thrill is not to kill- but to let live.

The greatest thrill is not to kill- but to let live.

James Oliver Curwood
Peace, Animal, Thrill

There are so many kinds of madness, so many ways in which the human brain may go wrong; and so often it happens that what we call madness is both reasonable and just. It is so. Yes. A little reason is good for us, a little more makes wise men of some of us--but when our reason over-grows us and we reach too far, something breaks and we go insane.

James Oliver Curwood
Wise, Men, Brain
James Oliver Curwood “Works by James Oliver Curwood (Illustrated, 22 books)”, LCI

Nature is my religion. And my desire...my ambition...the great goal I wish to achieve is to take my readers with me into the heart of this Nature. I love it, and I feel that they must love it......if I can only get the two acquainted.

James Oliver Curwood
Heart, Ambition, Two

In every man's heart there is a devil, but we do not know the man as bad until the devil is roused.

James Oliver Curwood
Heart, Men, Devil
James Oliver Curwood (2004). “Back to God's Country”, p.115, 1st World Publishing

Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which one must step who would enter into the mystery and adventure of the great white North.

James Oliver Curwood
Book, Adventure, White
James Oliver Curwood (2015). “The Valley of Silent Men”, p.2, Booklassic

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