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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.

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It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.

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The Navy is very old and very wise.

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In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.

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It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:- 'Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you, We will therefore pay you cash to go away.'

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

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Something I owe to the soil that grew-More to the life that fed-But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides of my head. I would go without shirt or shoes, Friends, tobacco, or bread Sooner than for an instant lose Either side of my head.

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Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood

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Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.

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Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

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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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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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They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.

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And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

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Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

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If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.

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War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.

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Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

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

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