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

Rudyard Kipling

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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Goodness Smoke Woman
You must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.
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Forgiveness Learning Love Man Nuisance
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 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
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
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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Creation God Himself Mom
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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Nature Neighbor Trouble
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
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
All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
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Country Fast Fools Man Money Reputation World
If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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Dedication Serious 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
Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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Beautiful Garden Shade Sing Sit
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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Failure Inspirational Reason Repeat Try
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
All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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Man Religion Sensible Talk

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