Rudyard Kipling Quotes, New York Quotes, Reflection Quotes

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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Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.

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Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep

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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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A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.

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Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

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

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There is no harm in a man's cub.

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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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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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The motto of all the mongoose family is, "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

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I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.

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In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: 'If you don't work you die.'

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No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what the teachers are themselves.

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The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.

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When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!

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Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

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When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.

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These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.

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