Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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It’s always best to tell the truth.
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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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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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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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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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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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You must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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When 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.’
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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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 want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn’t want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
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