He travels the fastest who travels alone.
RUDYARD KIPLINGLiterature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
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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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You must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.
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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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Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
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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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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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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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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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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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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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