Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Triumph Quotes

Both triumph and disaster are impostors.

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The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

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Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

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Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.

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What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

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No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons.

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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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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

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If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!

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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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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

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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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I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps which is perfect - that's us; An' they call us Her Majesty's Engineers, With the rank and pay of a Sapper!

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The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.

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None of the Jungle People like being disturbed.

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Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep... For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that an' Chuck him out, the brute! But it's Saviour of his country, when the guns begins to shoot!

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The heart of a man to the heart of a maid- Light of my tents, be fleet- Morning awaits at the end of the world, And the world is all at our feet.

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The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

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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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