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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.

Rudyard Kipling

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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Honesty Man Myself Philosophy Service Teaching Wisdom
Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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Advice Deep Fall Past Yourself
Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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Judgement Resistance Slow
Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.
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City Death Eyes Flower Time
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
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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Drug Kind Man Powerful Word
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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Book Man Wine
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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Exception Serious Yourself
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’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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Ability Accurate Intuition Man Woman
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
I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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Death Eat Man Myself Sleep Work
Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.
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Compliment Hope Praise Reach Sister Woman Yourself
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
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!
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Blame Doubt Head Lose Man Trust Yourself
He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
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Children Heart Himself Reach Reaching World

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