The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
RUDYARD KIPLINGIf 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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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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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 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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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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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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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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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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