Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Lying Quotes, Islands Quotes

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

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(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.

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We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young!

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Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

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We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe.

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O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

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it's always best to tell the truth.

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We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!

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The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.

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No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.

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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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The Navy is very old and very wise.

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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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Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.

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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

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God help us for we knew the worst too young.

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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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There is no sin greater than ignorance.

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If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.

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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

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