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

Quote by Rudyard Kipling

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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

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...

I always prefer to believe in the best of everybody - it saves so much...

I always prefer to believe in the best of everybody - it saves so much...

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

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

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

And How and Where and Who.

And How and Where and Who.

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......

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...

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.

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.

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

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

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by...

For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by...

You haf too much Ego in your Cosmos

You haf too much Ego in your Cosmos

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...

Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching.

Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching.

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...

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at...

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at...

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.

It's clever, but is it Art?

It's clever, but is it Art?

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told...

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told...