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 KIPLINGBorrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
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Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
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It’s always best to tell the truth.
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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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He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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When the Man waked up he said, ‘What is Wild Dog doing here?’ And the Woman said, ‘His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.’
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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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Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
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A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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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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