Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
RUDYARD KIPLINGNever 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.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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It’s always best to tell the truth.
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In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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Believe the best of everybody.
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There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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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.
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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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If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; yours is the earth and everything that’s in it.
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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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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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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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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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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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All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
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Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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