There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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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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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
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Delight in the little things.
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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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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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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This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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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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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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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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A Time For Prayer “In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.” -Rudyard Kipling
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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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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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There are gems of wondrous brightness Often times lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.
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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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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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