Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Years Quotes, Mind Quotes

They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.

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Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

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

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

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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

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For it's "guns this" and "guns that," and "chuck 'em out, the brutes," But they're the "Savior of our loved ones" when the thugs begin to loot.

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There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man she adores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, or interlard her speech with his pet oaths.

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Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.

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Both triumph and disaster are impostors.

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Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

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When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

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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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Body and spirit I surrendered whole To harsh instructors and received a soul... If mortal man could change me through and through From all I was What may the God not do?

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

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This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.

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If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.

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The white moth to the closing vine, The bee to the open clover, And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood Ever the wide world over.

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If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.

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

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