Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Army Quotes, Perfect Quotes

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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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

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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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Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

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I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.

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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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They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.

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

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Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.

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When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.

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As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race... and the hearts of the meanest were humbled.

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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.

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The white moth to the closing vine, The bee to the open clover, And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood Ever the wide world over.

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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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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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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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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

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I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

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