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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

Rudyard Kipling

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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Animal Forest Jungle Law Strike
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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Fool Man Management Silly 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
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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Exception Serious Yourself
I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
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Desire Myself Occupy Reality Savage See
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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Deep Purity Purpose Religious
When the Man waked up he said, ‘What is Wild Dog doing here?’ And the Woman said, ‘His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.’
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Dog Friendship Himself Man Wild
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
A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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Ability Accurate Intuition Man Woman
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 woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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Goodness Smoke Woman
Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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Advice Deep Fall Past Yourself
Not getting what you want either means you don’t want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
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Defeat Enough Karma Pay Price 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

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