Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.
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It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish- the blood-ends the cook had collected overnight. They cleaned up the plates and pans of the elder mess, who were out fishing, sliced pork for the midday meal, swabbed down the foc'sle, filled the lamps, drew coal and water for the cook, an investigated the fore-hold, where the boat's stores were stacked. It was another perfect day - soft, mild and clear; and Harvey breathed to the very bottom of his lungs.
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If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
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Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.
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Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!
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In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
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Those who only know England know not England.
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Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
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Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.
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Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.
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Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.
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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.
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I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
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Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists on being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle.
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Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep... For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that an' Chuck him out, the brute! But it's Saviour of his country, when the guns begins to shoot!