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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGCities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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It’s always best to tell the truth.
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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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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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Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
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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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Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
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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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I’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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