I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
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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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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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I have seen something of this world,” she said over the trays, “and there are but two sorts of women in it– those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.
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Delight in the little things.
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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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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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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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Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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It’s always best to tell the truth.
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Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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