Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Sheep Quotes, Gentleman Quotes

We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

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And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.

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He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

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Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

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Every woman knows all about everything.

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

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I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.

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

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No one accuses the Gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He hasn't the time. He serves at least three jealous gods—his horse and all its saddlery and harness; his gun, whose least detail of efficiency is more important than men's lives; and, when these have been attended to, the never-ending mystery of his art commands him.

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As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.

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We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young!

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The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.

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I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.

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OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!

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

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Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

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

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As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race... and the hearts of the meanest were humbled.

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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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