I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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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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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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
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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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Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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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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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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If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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It’s always best to tell the truth.
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Not getting what you want either means you don’t want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
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Delight in the little things.
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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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