Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.
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I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.
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I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.
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I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
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If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a man my son!
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Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.
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He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.
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Payday came and with it beer.
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Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.
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They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.
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Every woman knows all about everything.
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Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
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He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.
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You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.
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Also, we will make promise. So long as The Blood endures, I shall know that your good is mine: ye shall feel that my strength is yours: In the day of Armageddon, at the last great fight of all, That Our House stand together and the pillars do not fall.
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But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.
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If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it...
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When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.
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Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.
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Believe the best of everybody.
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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'
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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.