There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make.


Rudyard Kipling

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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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I've a head like a concertina, I've a tongue like a buttonstick, I've a mouth like an old potato, an...
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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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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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