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I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.

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

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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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If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!

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Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.

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The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

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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 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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When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!

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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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Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!

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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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He travels the fastest who travels alone.

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

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Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep... For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that an' Chuck him out, the brute! But it's Saviour of his country, when the guns begins to shoot!

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Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

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When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.

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And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.

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We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

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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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