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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.

Rudyard Kipling

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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Country Fast Fools Man Money Reputation World
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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Exception Serious Yourself
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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Dreams Myself Sick War Weapon World
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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Brain God Soldier Weapon Woman Wound Yourself
I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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Deal Humanity Myself Nature Powerful Word
All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
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Home Kind Man Travel World
He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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Alone Fast Himself Independent One Liner Travel
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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Compliment Hope Praise Reach Sister Woman Yourself
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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Book Man Wine
There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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Greatness Ignorance Sin
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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Forget God Peace Prayer Right Soldier Time War
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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Civilization Country Herself Old
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
Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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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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Decency Dog Impression Life Politics
Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
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