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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGBe slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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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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I’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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Delight in the little things.
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There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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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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If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.
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Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
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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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Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.
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When the Man waked up he said, ‘What is Wild Dog doing here?’ And the Woman said, ‘His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.’
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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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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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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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There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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