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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
Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
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Beyond Exception Place Serious Sun
Delight in the little things.
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Delight Happiness One Liner
I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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Death Eat Man Myself Sleep Work
We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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Lying Sea Understand
It’s always best to tell the truth.
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Best Honesty Talk Truth
When the Man waked up he said, ‘What is Wild Dog doing here?’ And the Woman said, ‘His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.’
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Dog Friendship Himself Man Wild
What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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Animal Forest Jungle Law Strike
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
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
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
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
Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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Decency Dog Impression Life Politics
If you want something and don’t get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn’t want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
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Price Reason Try Yourself
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
He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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Adversity Courage Face Hard Time Himself

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