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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

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

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Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!

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If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.

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Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what is Art whereto we press Through paint and prose and rhyme- When Nature in her nakedness Defeats us every time?

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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

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There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.

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I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.

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And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.

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At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.

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For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.

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If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.

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

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Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.

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I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

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

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One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at the agony next door.

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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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When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.

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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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