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Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.
What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live?
San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.
The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!
Favouritism governed kissage, Even as it does in this age.
...he will be our friend for always and always and always.
After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.
Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
And what should they know of England who only England know?
Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way." The Lama in Kim
Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.
I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.
Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!
Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.
Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.
If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.
For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.
He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.
Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.
I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget--lest we forget!
Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie.
This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.
Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.
But he couldn't lie if you paid him and he'd starve before he stole.
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart.
The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.
I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.
Teach us delight in simple things, and mirth that has no bitter springs.
Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.