Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
RUDYARD KIPLINGIf history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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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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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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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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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
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At two o’clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.
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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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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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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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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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