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If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

Rudyard Kipling

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
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
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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Animal Dangerous Death Female Human
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 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
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
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
There are gems of wondrous brightness Often times lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.
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Bright Care Earth Lying Ourselves Time Walk Wonderful
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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Bad Literature Wife
Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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Advice Deep Fall Past Yourself
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
If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; yours is the earth and everything that’s in it.
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Dreams Earth Leadership Master Patience Success Wait Yourself
One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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Oneself Place Resistance
There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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Grave Jealous
All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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Man Religion Sensible Talk
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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Believe Best Myself Save Trouble

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