Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Love Quotes, Lying Quotes

But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

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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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Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

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

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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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No one accuses the Gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He hasn't the time. He serves at least three jealous gods—his horse and all its saddlery and harness; his gun, whose least detail of efficiency is more important than men's lives; and, when these have been attended to, the never-ending mystery of his art commands him.

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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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Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

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Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

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

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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.

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Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.

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Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.

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When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

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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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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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I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps which is perfect - that's us; An' they call us Her Majesty's Engineers, With the rank and pay of a Sapper!

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Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.

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They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think he would squander souls?

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