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 KIPLINGThe 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.
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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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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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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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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I’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
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In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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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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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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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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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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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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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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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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