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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

Rudyard Kipling

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
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
Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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Judgement Resistance Slow
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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Bad Literature Wife
A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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Ability Accurate Intuition Man Woman
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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End Goodness People Sea Yourself
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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Book Man Wine
No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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Green Thinking Winter
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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Fear Inspirational Motivational Ourselves World Worst
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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Drink Energy Man Vice Work
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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Nature Neighbor Trouble
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
Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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Decency Dog Impression Life Politics
You must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.
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Forgiveness Learning Love Man Nuisance
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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Believe Best Myself Save Trouble
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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Failure Inspirational Reason Repeat Try

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