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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGThe silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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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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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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The world is very lovely, and it’s very horrible–and it doesn’t care about your life or mine or anything else.
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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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All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!
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I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
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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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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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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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