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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 look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
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Advice Deep Fall Past Yourself
One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
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Oneself Place Resistance
Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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Deep Distance Togetherness
A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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Ability Accurate Intuition Man Woman
There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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Greatness Ignorance Remember Sin
There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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Greatness Ignorance Sin
When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your god like a soldier.
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Brain God Soldier Weapon Woman Wound Yourself
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
If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
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Balance Failure Man Success Yourself
He who can reach a child’s heart can reach the worlds heart.
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Children Heart Himself Reach Reaching World
If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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Dedication Serious Yourself
Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
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Deep Purity Purpose Religious
All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
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Home Kind Man Travel World
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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Goodness Memories Necessary Talk Walk Woman
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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History Naked Nation People Reason Simplicity
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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Book Man Wine
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
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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Balance Inspirational Strength Team Work Wolf
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
We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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Lying Sea Understand
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
All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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Man Religion Sensible Talk
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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Creation God Himself Mom
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
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Civilization Country Herself Old
If you can dream – and not make dreams your master.
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Dreams Master Yourself
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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Exception Serious Yourself
There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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Grave Jealous

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