Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
RUDYARD KIPLINGWhat is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
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Believe the best of everybody.
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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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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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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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.
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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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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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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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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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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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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
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In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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