Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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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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I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.
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Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
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None of the Jungle People like being disturbed.
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Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists on being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle.
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He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.
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The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
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The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The deer to the wholesome wold; And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid, As it was in the days of old.
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No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.
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Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
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We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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All we have of freedom All we use or know This our fathers bought for us Long and long ago
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Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.
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I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.
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The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.
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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
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If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.
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One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.
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Favouritism governed kissage, Even as it does in this age.
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For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
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If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!
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Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.
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San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
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Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
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Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
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All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
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If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.
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