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All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

Rudyard Kipling

Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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Advice Deep Fall Past Yourself
I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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Deal Humanity Myself Nature Powerful Word
Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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Blame Head Lose Yourself
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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Glory Man Money Poor Position Yourself
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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Forget History Story Teaching
No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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Green Thinking Winter
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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Dreams Earth Leadership Master Patience Success Wait Yourself
No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves – but what the teachers are themselves.
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Mindset Teacher Teaching Word Young
Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
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Deep Purity Purpose Religious
One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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Oneself Place Resistance
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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Lonely Pay Price Privilege Scare Struggle Tribe Yourself
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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Goodness Smoke Woman
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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Animal Dangerous Death Female Human
If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
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Ability Work Yourself
Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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Deep Distance Togetherness
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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Bad Literature Wife

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