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Rudyard Kipling has 235 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.
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No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves…
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For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
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Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees,…
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I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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I have stated it plain, an' my argument's thus ( It's all one, says the Sapper) There's only one Corps which is…
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Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price…
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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.
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The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!
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... he became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing;
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Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and…
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Never injure a friend, even in jest.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's…
— Robert H. Jackson
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Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.
— Samuel Johnson
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... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.
— William Cowper
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I love no woman, for love is a serious business, not a jest.
— Marie de France
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Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Jests that give pains are no jests.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
— Samuel Richardson
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May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.
— Charles Lamb
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Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were…
— John Flavel
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I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But…
— Sarah Michelle Gellar
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Judge of a jest when you have done laughing.
— Robert Lloyd
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