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And there's never a law of God or man runs north of Fifty-three.

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.

You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

Thou hast been with the Monkey People - the gray apes - the people without a law - the eaters of everything.

Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy.

An angry skipper makes an unhappy crew.

But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.

Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.

On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!

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However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.

What is the moral? Who rides may read.

There is no sin greater than ignorance.

There is but one task for all
One life for each to give.
What stands if Freedom fall?
[For All We Have and Are]

Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone,
But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.

All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

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

(It is an order!),

Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave,

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.

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

I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.

Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

Delight in the little things.

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

How can you do anything until you have seen everything,or as much as you can?

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

The Navy is very old and very wise.

As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

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A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.

It's clever, but is it art?

He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing;

Mark my trail...

Ye kill before midnight, be silent, and wake not the woods with

The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow.

What is a woman that you forsake her
And the hearth fire and the home acre
To go with that old grey widow-maker?

Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.

Oppress not the cubs of the stranger, but hail them as Sister and Brother,

He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits.

The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

Smells are surer than sounds and sights to make the heartstrings crack.

It does not matter what people think of a man after his death.

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

It's always best to tell the truth.

My heart is so tired

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!

Words are the most powerful drug used by humankind.

When a snake misses its stroke, it never says anything or gives any sign of what it means to do next.

I've taken my fun where I've found it.

He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies ... but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.

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

One cannot resist the lure of Africa.

Madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.

The others down by the melon bed. Nagaina spun clear round,

If your mirror be broken, look into still water; but have a care that you do not fall in. - Hindu Proverb.

I have eaten your bread and salt.
I have drunk your water and wine.
The deaths ye died I have watched beside
And the lives ye led were mine.

We be of one blood, thou and I -

Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul.

Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously - the midday sun always excepted.

elephant's trumpeting

Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.

If a man can hear the truth he's spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools ...

For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.

I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy.

Both triumph and disaster are impostors.

When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door. And this also is Literature.

Know too much, young un," said Billy, "and that is one

Well," said Rikki-tikki, and his tail began to fluff up again, "marks or no marks, do you think it is right for you to eat fledglings out of a nest?

The flannelled fools at the wicket or the mudied oafs at the goals ...

He who faces no calamity gains no courage.

Only the keeper sees
that,where the ring-dove broods
and the badgers roll at ease,
there was once a road through the woods

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue

It is not any common earth,
Water or wood or air,
But Merlin's Isle of Gramarye
That you and I will fare.

We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week ... The bottom is out of the Universe.

Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.

Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.

Sing to your fledglings again,

Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie.

The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible
and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

Of all the trees that grow so fair Old England to adorn,
Greater are none beneath the Sun
Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn.

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

The toad beneath the harrow knows
Where every separate tooth-point goes ;
The butterfly upon the road
Preaches contentment to that toad.

Seriously, the Burmese girls are very pretty.

Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me who love him than that he should come to harm through ignorance,

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

None of the Jungle People like being disturbed.

I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.

Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him.

Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges
Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!