Rudyard Kipling Quotes

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• And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.
• Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.
• No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves - but what…
• For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
• Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your…
• I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
• I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps which is perfect - that's…
• Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to…
• Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.
• The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
• ... he became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing;
• Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to…
• He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that…
• 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.
• And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who…
• Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
• The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.
• When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would…
• For it's "guns this" and "guns that," and "chuck 'em out, the brutes," But they're the "Savior of our loved ones" when the thugs begin…
• Doctors have been exposed-you always will be exposed-to the attacks of those persons who consider their own undisciplined emotions more important than the world's most…

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