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

Rudyard Kipling

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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Deep Purity Purpose Religious
He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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Adversity Courage Face Hard Time Himself
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Mom Worth
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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Beyond Exception Place Serious Sun
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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Goodness Smoke Woman
All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
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Country Fast Fools Man Money Reputation World
All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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Man Religion Sensible Talk
No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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Green Thinking Winter
He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
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Children Heart Himself Reach Reaching World
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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Fear Inspirational Motivational Ourselves World Worst
In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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Food Jungle Life Temper
The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
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Eyes Garden Glory Nature
I’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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Death Forget Reading Subscription Yourself
Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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Beautiful Garden Shade Sing Sit
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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Drug Kind Man Powerful Word
Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.
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City Death Eyes Flower Time
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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Desire Myself Occupy Reality Savage See
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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Dreams Earth Leadership Master Patience Success Wait Yourself
Believe the best of everybody.
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Believe Best One Liner View
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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Exception Serious Yourself
There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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Greatness Ignorance Sin
The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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Jungle Listening Nature Talk
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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Failure Inspirational Reason Repeat Try
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
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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Brain God Soldier Weapon Woman Wound Yourself
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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Lonely Pay Price Privilege Scare Struggle Tribe Yourself
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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Civilization Country Herself Old

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