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 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.
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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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You must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.
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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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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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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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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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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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All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!
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Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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When the Man waked up he said, ‘What is Wild Dog doing here?’ And the Woman said, ‘His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.’
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There are gems of wondrous brightness Often times lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.
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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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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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It’s always best to tell the truth.
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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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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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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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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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Believe the best of everybody.
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