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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

Rudyard Kipling

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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Country Fast Fools Man Money Reputation World
The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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Jungle Listening Nature Talk
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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Lonely Pay Price Privilege Scare Struggle Tribe Yourself
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
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Adventure Brief Inspirational Meaning Moments Short
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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Book Man Wine
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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Brain God Soldier Weapon Woman Wound Yourself
Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
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Deep Purity Purpose Religious
Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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Advice Deep Fall Past Yourself
All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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Man Religion Sensible Talk
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
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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Failure Inspirational Reason Repeat Try
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
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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Desire Myself Occupy Reality Savage See
Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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Humble Knowledge Sacrifice
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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Exception Serious Yourself
Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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Blame Head Lose Yourself

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