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

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.

It's clever, but is it Art?

It's clever, but is it Art?

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...

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...

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

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.

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.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman...

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman...

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......

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...

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.

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...

Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching.

Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is...

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is...

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

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