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Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

Rudyard Kipling

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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Home Kind Man Travel World
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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Goodness Smoke Woman
This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
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Adventure Brief Inspirational Meaning Moments Short
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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Price Reason Try Yourself
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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Brain God Soldier Weapon Woman Wound Yourself
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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Bad Literature Wife
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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Lonely Pay Price Privilege Scare Struggle Tribe Yourself
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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End Goodness People Sea Yourself
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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Beyond Exception Place Serious Sun
I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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Death Eat Man Myself Sleep Work
Delight in the little things.
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Delight Happiness One Liner
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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Drug Kind Man Powerful Word
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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Desire Myself Occupy Reality Savage See
Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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Deep Distance Togetherness
Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it – One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.
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History Naked Nation People Reason Simplicity
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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Book Man Wine

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