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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For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

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How can you do anything until you have seen everything,or as much as you can?

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A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.

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

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

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Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

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On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!

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There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

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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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He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.

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A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

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It's clever, but is it Art?

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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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Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.

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What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

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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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And what should they know of England who only England know?

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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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