Rudyard Kipling quote: "I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a buttonstick, I've a mouth like an old potato, and I'm more than a little sick, But I've had my fun o' the Corp'ral's Guard; I've made the cinders fly, And I'm here in the Clink for a thundering drin"

Four things greater than all things are,Women and Horses and Power and War.
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A Nation spoke to a Nation,A Queen sent word to a Throne:Daughter am I in my mothers house,But mistr...
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Oh, its Tommy this, an Tommy that, an Tommy, go away;But its Thank you, Mister Atkins, when the band...
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You may have noticed that many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem
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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
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'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor With a hairy old crown on 'er 'ead? She 'as ships on th...
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But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, We will work for ourself and a...
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody--it saves so much trouble.
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Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.
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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If y...
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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If ...
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I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
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Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph dr...
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Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to ser...
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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains,...
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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
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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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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so ...
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All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They.
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Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
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I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, H...
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Until thy feet have trod the Road
Advise not wayside folk,
Nor till thy back has borne the Loa...
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The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greate...
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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was bein...
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On the road to Mandalay
Where the flyin' fishes play,
An' the dawn comes up like thunder out...
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble.
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But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither ...
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There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose...
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There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born,
Whose plinths are laid at midnight and wh...
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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
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There was an old man of Quebec,
Who was buried in snow to his neck.
When asked,
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Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand pres...
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
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Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.
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Call a truce, then, to our labors -- let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the cu...
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A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
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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 ...
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For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions -- largely i...
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He wrapped himself in quotations
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High noon behind the tamarisks, the sun is hot above us-- As at home the Christmas Day is breaking...
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Now it is not good for the Christian's health To hustle the Aryan brown, For the Christian ril...
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For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
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One good quote is worth a book
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No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all...
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Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too mu...
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Take up the White Man's burden.
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'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's m...
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In sight of peace--from the Narrow Seas O'er half the world to run-- With a cheated crew, to l...
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A heathy garden is a reflection of a healthy soul.
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A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
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The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what ...
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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
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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 whispe...
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If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mo...
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Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
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Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners...
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so ...
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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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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He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
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Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is t...
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If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world w...
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Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
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Over all good things certain, this is sure indeed, Suffer not the old King, for we know the breed.
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The present is big with the future. [Fr., Le present est gros de l'avenir.]
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When Earth's last picture is painted, and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colour...
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For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck 'im out, the brute!" But it's "Savior of 'is country...
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If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The w...
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It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and 'chuck 'im out, the brute,' But it's 'Savior of his Country,' W...
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The Light that Failed.
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He is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.
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If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love woul...
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When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea; An' what he thought '...
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What is the flag of England? Ye have but my breath to dare, Ye have but my waves to conquer. Go ...
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God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall...
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God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far-flung battle-line, Beneath whose awful Hand ...
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For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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The tumult and the shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart; Still stands thine ancien...
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If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.
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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispe...
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Funny how the new things are the old things.
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There's no jealousy in the grave.
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Every woman knows all about everything.
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I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And...
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Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth;
Once there was The People, and it made a hell ...
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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
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Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
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They copied all they could follow
but they couldn't copy my mind
so I left them sweating an...
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The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds-- The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband an' 'e gives ...
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Her plates are scarred by the sun, dear lass, And her ropes are taut with the dew, For we're b...
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Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream, An', taught by time, I tak' it so--ex...
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But that's another story.
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The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
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And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; ...
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We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottl...
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And the Sons of Mary smile and are blessed--they know the angels are on their side: They know in ...
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The gull shall whistle in his wake, the blind wave break in fire. He shall fulfill God's utmost wi...
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And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for m...
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Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, He travels the fastest who travel alone.
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Follow the Romany Patteran Sheer to the Austral light, Where the bosom of God is the wild west...
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There lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendo...
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Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers, / With England's own coal, up and down the salt se...
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San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are...
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I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it a...
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I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains -
I will remember my old strength and ...
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If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; I...
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[Fifty-nine year old Richard Smith, of Sylvania Township, doesn't need a state poet laureate - or so...
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A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.
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Tho' I walks with fifty 'ousemaids outer Chelsea to the Strand, / An' they talks a lot o' lovin', bu...
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Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot lie.
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War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil m...
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I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankin...
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I Keep Six Honest Serving Men ..."

I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me a...
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Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.
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It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over ...
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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition
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Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War
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The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives ye led were mine
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There is but one task for all --
One life for each to give.
What stands if Freedom fall?"<...
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble
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They will come back, come back again,
As long as the red earth rolls.
He never wasted a le...
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I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.
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We get the Hump - / Cameelious Hump - / The Hump that is black and blue!
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(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a consta...
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I hate and fear snakes, because if you look into the eyes of any snake you will see that it knows al...
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We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.
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The Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.
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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a clever woman to manage a fool
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If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The ...
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Gentlemen-Rankers out on the spree, / Damned from here to Eternity.
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There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day; But when we are ...
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If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you t...
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Daughter am I in my mother's house, But mistress in my own
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You haf too much Ego in your Cosmos
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Call a truce, then to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors And be merry as the custo...
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Pleasant the snaffle of Courtship, improving the manners and carriage, But the colt who is wise will...
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When the Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried.
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Predestination in the stride o' yon connectin'-rod.
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All we have of freedom - all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago
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To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned.
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It is at Bombay that the smell of All Asia boards the ship miles off shore, and holds the passenger'...
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He's an absent-minded beggar, and his weaknesses are great - / But we and Paul must take him as we f...
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Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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The great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever trees.
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Prize, oh! Haul! shouted Dan, but the shout ended in a shrill, double shriek of horror, for out of t...
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. . . an angry skipper makes an unhappy crew . . .
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And it is I, Raksha [The Demon], who answers. The man’s cub is mine, Lungri–mine to me! He shall...
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Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall kee...
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Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met ...
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I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.
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The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or any...
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If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, / Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch.
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I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a button-stick, / I've a mouth like an old potato,...
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Your new-caught, sullen peoples / Half devil and half child.
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An' for all 'is dirty 'ide / 'E was white, clear white inside / When 'e went to tend the wounded und...
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A-wastin' Christian kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot.
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'E's all 'ot sand an' ginger when alive, / An' 'e's generally shammin' when 'e's dead.
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Duke's son - cook's son - son of a hundred kings - / (Fifty thousand horse and foot going to Table B...
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'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor / With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?
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There's a little red-faced man, / Which is Bobs. / Rides the tallest 'orse 'e can - / Our Bobs.
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It was not preached to the crowd, / It was not taught by the State. / No man spoke it aloud, / When ...
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If he plays, being young and unskillful, For shekels of silver or gold, Take his money, my son prais...
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The coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go!
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Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!
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What stands if Freedom fall? / Who dies if England live?
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Such boastings as the Gentiles use, / Or lesser breeds without the Law.
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Take up the White Man's burden - / And reap his old reward: / The blame of those ye better, / The ha...
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There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake, / Or the way of a man with a maid.
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And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!
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There's times when you'll think that you mightn't, / There's times when you know that you might; / B...
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The sins ye do by two and two, ye must pay for, one by one
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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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Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.
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If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster/ And treat those two impostors just the same.
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When Pack meets with Pack in the Jungle, And neither will go from the trail, Lie down till the leade...
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All good people agree,
And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
An...
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Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.
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What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?
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I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)
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There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will tu...
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I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craf...
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Threatened men live long.
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Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.
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Cites and Thrones and Powers
Stand in Time's eye
Which daily die;
But, as new buds pu...
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It isn't what you say so much.
It's what you mean when you say it.
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I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and ...
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East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet
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I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a buttonstick, I've a mouth like an old potato, and I'm more than a little sick, But I've had my fun o' the Corp'ral's Guard; I've made the cinders fly, And I'm here in the Clink for a thundering drin

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I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a buttonstick, I've a mouth like an old potato, and I'm more than a little sick, But I've had my fun o' the Corp'ral's Guard; I've made the cinders fly, And I'm here in the Clink for a thundering drin

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