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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.

Rudyard Kipling

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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Creation God Himself Mom
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
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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Dreams Myself Sick War Weapon World
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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Bad Literature Wife
One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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Oneself Place Resistance
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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Book Man Wine
A Time For Prayer “In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.” -Rudyard Kipling
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Forget God Peace Prayer Right Soldier Time War
At two o’clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.
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Call Darkness Feeling Morning Nature Night Open Shadow Sun Window Yourself
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
Cat said, ‘I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.’
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Animal Friendship Myself Service
Delight in the little things.
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Delight Happiness One Liner
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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Beautiful Horrible Life Love Myself World
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
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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Goodness Smoke Woman
I’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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Death Forget Reading Subscription Yourself
Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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Deep Distance Togetherness

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