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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

Rudyard Kipling

If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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Dedication Serious Yourself
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
The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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Jungle Listening Nature Talk
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
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Mom Worth
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
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
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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Deep Purity Purpose Religious
Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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Advice Deep Fall Past Yourself
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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Drug Kind Man Powerful Word
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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Failure Inspirational Reason Repeat Try
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
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Civilization Country Herself Old
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
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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Nature Neighbor Trouble
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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End Goodness People Sea Yourself
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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Bad Literature Wife

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