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He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

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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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I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.

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Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.

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None of the Jungle People like being disturbed.

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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

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

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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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Hear and attend and listen; for this is what befell and be-happened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the Tame animals were wild. The dog was wild, and the Horse was wild, and the Cow was wild, and the Sheep was wild, and the Pig was wild -as wild as wild could be - and they walked in the Wet Wild Woods by their wild lones. But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself and all places were alike to him

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Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can; But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!

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I keep six honest serving men.

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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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It'is like a book, I think, this bloomin' world.

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I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.

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Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.

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He who faces no calamity gains no courage.

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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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Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

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

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If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

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