If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

Quote by Rudyard Kipling

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

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

Call a truce, then to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors...

Call a truce, then to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors...

The sins ye do by two and two, ye must pay for, one by one

The sins ye do by two and two, ye must pay for, one by one

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

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.

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that...

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that...

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty...

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty...

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

Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War.

Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War.

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 have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago......

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago......

Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching.

Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching.

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...

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

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...

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.

It's clever, but is it Art?

It's clever, but is it Art?