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Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.

Rudyard Kipling

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This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
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Adventure Brief Inspirational Meaning Moments Short
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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Blame Lose Man Son World Yourself
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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Fear Inspirational Motivational Ourselves World Worst
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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Forget History Story Teaching
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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Ability Work Yourself
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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Drug Kind Man Powerful Word
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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Defeat Enough Karma Pay Price Yourself
We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
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Ability End Inspirational Open Possible
I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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Death Eat Man Myself Sleep Work
All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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Man Religion Sensible Talk
Believe the best of everybody.
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Believe Best One Liner View
I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
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Honesty Man Myself Philosophy Service Teaching Wisdom
Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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Deep Distance Togetherness
There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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Grave Jealous
Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.
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Judgement Resistance Slow
Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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Advice Deep Fall Past Yourself
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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Country Fast Fools Man Money Reputation World
There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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Greatness Ignorance Remember Sin
One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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Oneself Place Resistance
If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.
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Dreams Master Yourself
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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Beautiful Horrible Life Love Myself World
It’s always best to tell the truth.
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Best Honesty Talk Truth
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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Desire Myself Occupy Reality Savage See
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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Dog Friendship Himself Man Wild
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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Price Reason Try Yourself
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
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Bad Literature Wife
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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Goodness Smoke Woman

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