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Nations 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.

Rudyard Kipling

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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
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Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just IT. Some women will stay in a man’s memory if they once walked down a street.
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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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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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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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Believe the best of everybody.
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves – but what the teachers are themselves.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
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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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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But ‘twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
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A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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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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In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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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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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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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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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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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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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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Delight in the little things.
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