Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Women Quotes, Pride Quotes

When the Hymalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail, For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

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(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.

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He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.

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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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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

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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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When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.

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

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The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

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Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die

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Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!

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Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

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A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

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

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Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.

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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

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The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.

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An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

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It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

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There is no sin greater than ignorance.

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