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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGAll things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just IT. Some women will stay in a man’s memory if they once walked down a street.
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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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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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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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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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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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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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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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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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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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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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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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Not getting what you want either means you don’t want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
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