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San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.

Rudyard Kipling

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Rudyard Kipling
Age: 70 †
Born: 1865
Born: December 30
Died: 1936
Died: January 18
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Each dog barks in his own yard!
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Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
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Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.
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Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep... For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that an' Chuck him out, the brute! But it's Saviour of his country, when the guns begins to shoot!
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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
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Body and spirit I surrendered whole To harsh instructors and received a soul... If mortal man could change me through and through From all I was What may the God not do?
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As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
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Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.
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One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!
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But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.
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If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.
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But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.
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Payday came and with it beer
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One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. ---The Thousandth Man
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Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.
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