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RUDYARD KIPLINGIf you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!
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Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
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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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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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If you want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn’t want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
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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 can dream – and not make dreams your master.
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
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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 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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We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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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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What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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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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All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!
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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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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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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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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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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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