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Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.

Rudyard Kipling

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
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.
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Price Reason Try Yourself
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
If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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Dedication Serious Yourself
Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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God One Liner Perspective Politics Vehicle
All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
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Father Freedom Time
There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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Greatness Ignorance Remember Sin
What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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Animal Forest Jungle Law Strike
A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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Brave Courtesy Heart Jungle
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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Book Man Wine
A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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Ability Accurate Intuition Man Woman
Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it – One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.
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History Naked Nation People Reason Simplicity
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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Balance Failure Man Success Yourself
If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
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Ability Work Yourself
Believe the best of everybody.
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Believe Best One Liner View
We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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Lying Sea Understand

Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.

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