Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Real Quotes, Cities Quotes

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

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One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.

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A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling

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There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

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And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.

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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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He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.

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They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods

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Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.

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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

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Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?

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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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Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain!

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The masterless man . . . afflicted with the magic of the necessary words. . . . Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the hearers.

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Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way." The Lama in Kim

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If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

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I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

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Every woman knows all about everything.

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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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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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