Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too!
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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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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
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A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.
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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
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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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An unhappy childhood was not an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.
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'E's all'ot sand an' ginger when alive, An''e's generally shammin' when'e's dead.
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And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.
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Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
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Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
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This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.
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When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.
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For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.
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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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If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards.
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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!
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Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
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The cat will keep his side of the bargain. He will kill mice, and he will be kind to babies when he is in the house, just so long as they do not pull his tail too hard. But when he has done that, and between times, and when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up on the Wet Wild trees or on the Wet Wild roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.
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I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.