The world is very lovely, and it’s very horrible–and it doesn’t care about your life or mine or anything else.
RUDYARD KIPLINGA woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.
More Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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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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There’s no jealousy in the grave.
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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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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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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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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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We are the opening verse of the opening page of the chapter of endless possibilities.
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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
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In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
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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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