Rudyard Kipling Quotes, Want Quotes, What You Want Quotes

If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.

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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.

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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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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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And what should they know of England who only England know?

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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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One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.

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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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A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.

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...he will be our friend for always and always and always.

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Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.

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Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .

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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

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I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.

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An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

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What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.

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A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path, for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down.

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When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'

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