No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves – but what the teachers are themselves.
RUDYARD KIPLINGIt’s always best to tell the truth.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
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Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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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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I’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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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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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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