I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.

Quote by Rudyard Kipling

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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!...

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!...

And How and Where and Who.

And How and Where and Who.

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...

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple...

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple...

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

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...

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the...

Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the...

All we have of freedom, all we use or know - This our fathers bought...

All we have of freedom, all we use or know - This our fathers bought...

You'll never plumb the Oriental mind, and if you did, it isn't worth the toil

You'll never plumb the Oriental mind, and if you did, it isn't worth the toil

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those two impostors just the...

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those two impostors just 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.

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

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

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