Kipling, Rudyard
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Kipling, Rudyard
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.
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Empire
Take up the White Man s burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.
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Empire
Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.
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Delinquency
The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.
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Christians and Christianity
Call a truce, then, to our labors -- let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if faint and forced the laughter, and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
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Christmas
Words are the most powerful drugs used by mankind.
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Drugs
A woman s guess is much more accurate than a man s certainty.
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Certainty
All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
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Freedom
There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.
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Hollywood
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble.
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Faith
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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Excuses
I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.
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Learning
Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
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Insanity
Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.
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Praise
But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.
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Humankind
Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
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Patience
A man s mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
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Mind
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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Words
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
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Nations
All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They.
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People
God gives all men all earth to love, but since man s heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belovèd over all.
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Places
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; Hold on!
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Perseverance
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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Unity
For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions -- largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
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Science and Scientists
He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
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Quotations
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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Style
For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
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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 gawd like a soldier.
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Army and Navy
And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we ve proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.
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Agreement
And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves It s pretty, but is it Art?
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Arts and Artists
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that s your nature, but don t lend it to your neighbors.
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Anxiety
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
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Children
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
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Work
If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.
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War