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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

Rudyard Kipling

Cat said, ‘I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.’
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Animal Friendship Myself Service
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
All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!
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End Goodness People Sea Yourself
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Mom Worth
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
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
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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Exception Serious Yourself
A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
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Ability Accurate Intuition Man Woman
A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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Brave Courtesy Heart Jungle
Politicians. Little Tiny Gods on Wheels.
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God One Liner Perspective Politics Vehicle
There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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Greatness Ignorance Sin
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
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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Fool Man Management Silly Woman
All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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Man Religion Sensible Talk
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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Book Man Wine
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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Failure Inspirational Reason Repeat Try

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