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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.

Rudyard Kipling

If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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Dedication Serious Yourself
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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Animal Dangerous Death Female Human
I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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Death Eat Man Myself Sleep Work
All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
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Father Freedom Time
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Mom Worth
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
A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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Ability Accurate Intuition Man Woman
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
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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Bad Literature Wife
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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History Naked Nation People Reason Simplicity
There are gems of wondrous brightness Often times lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.
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Bright Care Earth Lying Ourselves Time Walk Wonderful
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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Alone Fast Himself Independent One Liner Travel
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
Delight in the little things.
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Delight Happiness One Liner
War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But ‘twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
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Dreams Myself Sick War Weapon World
No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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Green Thinking Winter

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