Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire…

Quote by Rudyard Kipling

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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 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...

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

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

Let us now praise famous men' - / Men of little showing - / For...

Let us now praise famous men' - / Men of little showing - / For...

Gardens are not made by singing Oh, how beautiful, and sitting in the shade.

Gardens are not made by singing Oh, how beautiful, and sitting in the shade.

Payday came and with it beer

Payday came and with it beer

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...

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

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

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

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

Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching.

Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a...

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a...

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...

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

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......

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!...

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.

You may write it on his tombstone, You may cut it on his card, That...

You may write it on his tombstone, You may cut it on his card, That...

Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters

Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or...

I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or...