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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.

Rudyard Kipling

Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.
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Compliment Hope Praise Reach Sister Woman Yourself
Politics are not my concern. They impressed me as a dog’s life without a dog’s decencies.
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Decency Dog Impression Life Politics
A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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Ability Accurate Intuition Man Woman
Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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God One Liner Perspective Politics Vehicle
We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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Lying Sea Understand
No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
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Green Thinking Winter
A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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Brave Courtesy Heart Jungle
He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
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Adversity Courage Face Hard Time Himself
I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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Deal Humanity Myself Nature Powerful Word
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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Forget God Peace Prayer Right Soldier Time War
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
There are gems of wondrous brightness Often times lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.
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Bright Care Earth Lying Ourselves Time Walk Wonderful
He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
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Children Heart Himself Reach Reaching World
I have seen something of this world,” she said over the trays, “and there are but two sorts of women in it– those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.
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Change Growth Myself Strength Transformation Woman World
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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Drug Kind Man Powerful Word
Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
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Beyond Exception Place Serious Sun

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