If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.
RUDYARD KIPLINGPolitics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
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Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
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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 always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!
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When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your god like a soldier.
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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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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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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
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Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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