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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.

Rudyard Kipling

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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Fool Man Management Silly Woman
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
One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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Oneself Place Resistance
There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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Greatness Ignorance Sin
The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
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Eyes Garden Glory Nature
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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Mindset Teacher Teaching Word Young
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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Call Darkness Feeling Morning Nature Night Open Shadow Sun Window Yourself
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
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
Delight in the little things.
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Delight Happiness One Liner
Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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Advice Deep Fall Past Yourself
If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
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Balance Failure Man Success Yourself
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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Creation God Himself Mom
Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
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Beyond Exception Place Serious Sun
A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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Ability Accurate Intuition Man Woman
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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Exception Serious Yourself

The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.

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