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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGIt’s always best to tell the truth.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
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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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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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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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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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Believe the best of everybody.
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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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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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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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