All Rudyard Kipling Quotes
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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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 too old.
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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 paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.
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Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
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The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
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If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.
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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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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
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If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
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