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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A Time For Prayer “In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted.” -Rudyard Kipling
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If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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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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Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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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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I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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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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What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
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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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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.
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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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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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