Rudyard Kipling

(26 votes)   Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

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(18 votes)   I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

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(236 votes)   Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was--like eating an egg without salt.

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(144 votes)   The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.

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1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse

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(113 votes)   Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.

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1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse

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(110 votes)   God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belovFd over all.

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1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse

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(105 votes)   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.

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1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse

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(94 votes)   Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.

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1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse

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(93 votes)   I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

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(84 votes)   And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: ''A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.''

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1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse

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(84 votes)   Words are the most powerful drugs used by mankind.

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1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse

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(79 votes)   More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

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1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse

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(76 votes)   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.

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1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse

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(73 votes)   If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.

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1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse

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(65 votes)   'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.

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1865-1936, British Author of Prose, Verse

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