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Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid. (Rudyard Kipling)
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. View quote
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. View quote
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For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done. View quote
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Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work. View quote
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When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey. View quote
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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies. View quote
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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. View quote
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He travels the fastest who travels alone. View quote
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The Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him. View quote
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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears. (Rudyard Kipling)
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear. View quote
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If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied. View quote
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Of all the trees that grow so fair, Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun, Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn. View quote
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Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was - like eating an egg without salt. View quote
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There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin. View quote
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We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young. View quote
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Call a truce, then to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors And be merry as the custom of our caste For if faint and forced the laughter, and if sadness follow after, We are richer by one mocking Christmas past. View quote
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And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?" View quote
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Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need. View quote
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God gave all men all the earth to love but, since our hearts are so small, ordained for each, one spot to be beloved over all. (Rudyard Kipling)
There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this. View quote
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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. View quote
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We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding. View quote
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I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one. View quote
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