Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: 'If you don't work you die.
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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.
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No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons.
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For it's "guns this" and "guns that," and "chuck 'em out, the brutes," But they're the "Savior of our loved ones" when the thugs begin to loot.
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War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
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I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!
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Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.
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As the dawn comes up like thunder.
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Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. I never made a mistake in my life; At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards
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Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race... and the hearts of the meanest were humbled.
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Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.
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We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!
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Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die
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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.
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If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
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If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!