Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
RUDYARD KIPLINGNations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it – One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.
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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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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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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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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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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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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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Believe the best of everybody.
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When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your god like a soldier.
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A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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