It’s always best to tell the truth.
RUDYARD KIPLINGMany religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
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Delight in the little things.
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
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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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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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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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I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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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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You must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.
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No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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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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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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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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