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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.

Rudyard Kipling

I’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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Death Forget Reading Subscription Yourself
No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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Green Thinking Winter
All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
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Home Kind Man Travel World
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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Dog Friendship Himself Man Wild
The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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Jungle Listening Nature Talk
Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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Decency Dog Impression Life Politics
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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Goodness Smoke Woman
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Mom Worth
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!
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Blame Doubt Head Lose Man Trust Yourself
Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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Advice Deep Fall Past Yourself
A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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Ability Accurate Intuition Man Woman
I 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.
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Change Growth Myself Strength Transformation Woman World
Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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Beautiful Garden Shade Sing Sit
We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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Lying Sea Understand
Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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Blame Head Lose Yourself
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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Balance Failure Man Success Yourself

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