A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
RUDYARD KIPLINGWhen the Man waked up he said, ‘What is Wild Dog doing here?’ And the Woman said, ‘His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.’
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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 god like a soldier.
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I’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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The world is very lovely, and it’s very horrible–and it doesn’t care about your life or mine or anything else.
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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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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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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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There are gems of wondrous brightness Often times lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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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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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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