Rudyard Kipling Quotes

Every woman knows all about everything.

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All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!

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We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe.

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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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Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.

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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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If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.

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

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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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If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

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When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'

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Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.

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We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

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The masterless man . . . afflicted with the magic of the necessary words. . . . Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the hearers.

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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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One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.

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Sing, for faith and hope are high- None so true as you and I- Sing the Lovers' Litany: "Love like ours can never die!"

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And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.

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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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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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