English - Writer | December 30, 1865 - January 18, 1936
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
Rudyard Kipling
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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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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.
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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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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
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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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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?'
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He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
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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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