Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Death Quotes, Alive Quotes

'E's all'ot sand an' ginger when alive, An''e's generally shammin' when'e's dead.

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Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.

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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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As the dawn comes up like thunder.

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Favouritism governed kissage, Even as it does in this age.

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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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Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.

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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. I never made a mistake in my life; At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards

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You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.

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If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards

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Body and spirit I surrendered whole To harsh instructors and received a soul... If mortal man could change me through and through From all I was What may the God not do?

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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 think–and not make thoughts your aim.

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Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.

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There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.

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We be of one blood, ye and I

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But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.

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

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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.

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You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

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