Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Bridges Quotes, Two Quotes

Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew — (Twenty bridges or twenty two) — Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told.

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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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What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.

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Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.

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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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Every woman knows all about everything.

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As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

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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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I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

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A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path, for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down.

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We be of one blood, ye and I

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You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

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

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Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood

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But he couldn't lie if you paid him and he'd starve before he stole.

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Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie.

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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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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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If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

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