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If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.

Rudyard Kipling

The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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Jungle Listening Nature Talk
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
There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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Grave Jealous
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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Honesty Man Myself Philosophy Service Teaching Wisdom
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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Book Man Wine
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Mom Worth
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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Believe Best Myself Save Trouble
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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Lonely Pay Price Privilege Scare Struggle Tribe Yourself
Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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Beautiful Garden Shade Sing Sit
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
Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.
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City Death Eyes Flower Time
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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Goodness Smoke Woman
All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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Man Religion Sensible Talk
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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Fear Inspirational Motivational Ourselves World Worst
Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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Judgement Resistance Slow
We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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Lying Sea Understand

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.

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If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.

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