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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.

Rudyard Kipling

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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Bad Literature Wife
Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just IT. Some women will stay in a man’s memory if they once walked down a street.
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Goodness Memories Necessary Talk Walk Woman
All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
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Father Freedom Time
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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Goodness Smoke Woman
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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Failure Inspirational Reason Repeat Try
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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Compliment Hope Praise Reach Sister Woman Yourself
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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Beautiful Horrible Life Love Myself World
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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Change Growth Myself Strength Transformation Woman World
There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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Greatness Ignorance Remember Sin
Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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Deep Distance Togetherness
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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Animal Friendship Myself Service
A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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Ability Accurate Intuition Man Woman
I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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Death Eat Man Myself Sleep Work
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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Drug Kind Man Powerful Word
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Mom Worth
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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Ability Work Yourself

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