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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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.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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Delight in the little things.
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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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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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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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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!
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If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what’s more, you’ll be a man, my son.
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