Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
RUDYARD KIPLINGWar 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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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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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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Delight in the little things.
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It’s always best to tell the truth.
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A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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You must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.
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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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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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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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When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your god like a soldier.
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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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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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