If you want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn’t want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
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More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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 always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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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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You must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.
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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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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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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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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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No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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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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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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If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.
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Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
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Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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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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This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
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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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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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A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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