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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

Rudyard Kipling

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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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Desire Myself Occupy Reality Savage See
I’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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Death Forget Reading Subscription Yourself
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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Failure Inspirational Reason Repeat Try
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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Balance Inspirational Strength Team Work Wolf
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
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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Compliment Hope Praise Reach Sister Woman Yourself
Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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Deep Distance Togetherness
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
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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Believe Best Myself Save Trouble
He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
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Children Heart Himself Reach Reaching World
Not getting what you want either means you don’t want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
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Defeat Enough Karma Pay Price Yourself
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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Animal Dangerous Death Female Human
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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Home Kind Man Travel World
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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Exception Serious Yourself
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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Drink Energy Man Vice Work
Gardens are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful,’ and sitting in the shade.
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Beautiful Garden Shade Sing Sit

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