Tag: Rudyard Kipling
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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves ‘It’s pretty, but is it Art?’
Rudyard Kipling
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Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
Rudyard Kipling
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
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I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
Rudyard Kipling
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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
Rudyard Kipling
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Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
Rudyard Kipling