"The first condition of understanding a foreign country……" — Rudyard Kipling
"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it."
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223 Quotes by Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling has 223 quotes on this site.
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And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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More Condition Quotes
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
— Hannah Arendt
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
— Aristotle
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Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the…
— Margaret Atwood
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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I…
— Kevin Bacon
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the…
— Roland Barthes
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
— Bruce Barton
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary.…
— Saint Basil
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The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.
— Georges Bataille
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had…
— Joseph Addison
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When our Heavenly Father placed Adam and Eve on this earth, He did so with the purpose in mind of…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most…
— Alfred Adler
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