Rudyard Kipling

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#city #francisco #inhabited #insane #insane people

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#down #fastest #throne #travels #up

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

#failure #forty #million #reasons #single

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!' ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

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Everyone is more or less mad on one point. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

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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. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

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