If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
RUDYARD KIPLINGI’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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Believe the best of everybody.
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Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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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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What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
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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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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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There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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The world is very lovely, and it’s very horrible–and it doesn’t care about your life or mine or anything else.
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I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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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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