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All Quotes by author - Rudyard Kipling

" All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. "

" A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower. "

" 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. "

" 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?' "

" An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. "

" A people always ends by resembling its shadow. "

" Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. "

" A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke. "

" A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. "

" Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. "

" Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. "

" Everyone is more or less mad on one point. "

" Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. "

" For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. "

" For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one. "

" Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade. "

" God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. "

" Heaven grant us patience with a man in love. "

" He travels the fastest who travels alone. "

" He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. "

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

" If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. "

" If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine. "

" 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! "

" If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!' "

" If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son. "

" I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages. "

" It's clever, but is it Art? "

" Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. "

" 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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