Rudyard Kipling Quotes
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble.
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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Every woman knows all about everything.
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Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
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Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels fastest who travels alone.
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The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.
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Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - it shall never be again
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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
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There is no sin greater than ignorance.
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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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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I kep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.
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The sin they do two by two they must pay for one by one.
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Funny how the new things are the old things.
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He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
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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.