If 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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGA man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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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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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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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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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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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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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But ‘twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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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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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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