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 KIPLINGAt 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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War 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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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your god like a soldier.
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Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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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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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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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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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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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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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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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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