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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

Rudyard Kipling

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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
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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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Adversity Courage Face Hard Time Himself
If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; yours is the earth and everything that’s in it.
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Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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Blame Head Lose Yourself
Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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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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Honesty Man Myself Philosophy Service Teaching Wisdom
There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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Greatness Ignorance Remember Sin
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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Forget History Story Teaching
Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.
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This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
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