The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
RUDYARD KIPLINGI 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.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Believe the best of everybody.
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What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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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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All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
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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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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
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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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I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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