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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGI worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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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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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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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.
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All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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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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