Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
RUDYARD KIPLINGCat 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.’
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.
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A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves – but what the teachers are themselves.
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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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 am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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The world is very lovely, and it’s very horrible–and it doesn’t care about your life or mine or anything else.
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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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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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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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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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