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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.

Rudyard Kipling

Not getting what you want either means you don’t want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
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Defeat Enough Karma Pay Price Yourself
No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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Green Thinking Winter
I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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Deal Humanity Myself Nature Powerful Word
In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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Food Jungle Life Temper
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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Call Darkness Feeling Morning Nature Night Open Shadow Sun Window Yourself
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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Fool Man Management Silly Woman
What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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Animal Forest Jungle Law Strike
There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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Grave Jealous
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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Animal Dangerous Death Female Human
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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Country Fast Fools Man Money Reputation World
If 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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Blame Doubt Head Lose Man Trust Yourself
Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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Humble Knowledge Sacrifice
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
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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Book Man Wine
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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Bad Literature Wife
The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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Jungle Listening Nature Talk

One cannot resist the lure of Africa.

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