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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGNever 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.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
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Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just IT. Some women will stay in a man’s memory if they once walked down a street.
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Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it – One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
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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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The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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