We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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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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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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
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If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.
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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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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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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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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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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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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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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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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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