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.
RUDYARD KIPLINGNow India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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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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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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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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All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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I’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.
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Believe the best of everybody.
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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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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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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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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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