Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
RUDYARD KIPLINGCat said, ‘I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.’
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.
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Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just IT. Some women will stay in a man’s memory if they once walked down a street.
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This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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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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Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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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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Delight in the little things.
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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 faces no calamity gains no courage.
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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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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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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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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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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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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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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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Believe the best of everybody.
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There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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