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Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.

Rudyard Kipling

You must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.
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Forgiveness Learning Love Man Nuisance
If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; yours is the earth and everything that’s in it.
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Dreams Earth Leadership Master Patience Success Wait Yourself
There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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Greatness Ignorance Remember Sin
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
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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Animal Dangerous Death Female Human
Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
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Drink Energy Man Vice Work
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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Bad Literature Wife
Believe the best of everybody.
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Believe Best One Liner View
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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Book Man Wine
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
The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
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Eyes Garden Glory Nature
War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But ‘twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
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Dreams Myself Sick War Weapon World
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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Forget History Story Teaching
All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
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Father Freedom Time
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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Goodness Smoke Woman
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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Deep Purity Purpose Religious

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