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

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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!

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Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

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Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.

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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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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

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Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

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This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

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It's clever, but is it Art?

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You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

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No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.

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

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Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

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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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Those who only know England know not England.

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If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

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

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