What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
RUDYARD KIPLINGWar 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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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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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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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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It’s always best to tell the truth.
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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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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.
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Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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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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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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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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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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