I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
RUDYARD KIPLINGIf 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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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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It’s always best to tell the truth.
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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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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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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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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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For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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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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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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Believe the best of everybody.
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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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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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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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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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