A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Quote by Rudyard Kipling

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The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut...

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut...

It's clever, but is it Art?

It's clever, but is it Art?

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and...

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and...

Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching.

Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long...

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long...

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't...

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't...

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages

But, through the shift of mood and mood, Mine ancient humor saves him whole The...

But, through the shift of mood and mood, Mine ancient humor saves him whole The...

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

He is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.

He is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long, that she could not part...

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long, that she could not part...

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me...

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me...

You haf too much Ego in your Cosmos

You haf too much Ego in your Cosmos

Politics are not my concern . . . They impressed me as a dog's life...

Politics are not my concern . . . They impressed me as a dog's life...

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too...

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too...

I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.

I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.

But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat...

But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat...