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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

Rudyard Kipling

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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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Country Fast Fools Man Money Reputation World
A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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Ability Accurate Intuition Man Woman
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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Creation God Himself Mom
I have seen something of this world,” she said over the trays, “and there are but two sorts of women in it– those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.
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Change Growth Myself Strength Transformation Woman World
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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Desire Myself Occupy Reality Savage See
You must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.
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Forgiveness Learning Love Man Nuisance
The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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Jungle Listening Nature Talk
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
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
What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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Animal Forest Jungle Law Strike
Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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Humble Knowledge Sacrifice
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
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
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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Grave Jealous

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