One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
RUDYARD KIPLINGFor the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
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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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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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Believe the best of everybody.
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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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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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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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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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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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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Cat said, ‘I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.’
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Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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At two o’clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.
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