Rudyard Kipling Quotes, War Quotes, Two Quotes

However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.

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If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.

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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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Let it be clearly understood that the Russian is a delightful person till he tucks in his shirt. As an Oriental he is charming. It is only when he insists on being treated as the most easterly of western peoples instead of the most westerly of easterns that he becomes a racial anomaly extremely difficult to handle.

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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

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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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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.

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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.

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If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

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For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.

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For it's "guns this" and "guns that," and "chuck 'em out, the brutes," But they're the "Savior of our loved ones" when the thugs begin to loot.

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The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.

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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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Believe the best of everybody.

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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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Our loves are not given, but only lent, At compound interest of cent per cent.

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In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.

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Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

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

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I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.

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