Everyone is more or less mad on one point.
¶ "On the Strength of a Likeness"
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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) English writer
By all ye cry and whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your Gods and you.
¶ "The White Man's Burden"
It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, an' 'Chuck him out, the brute!'
But it's 'Saviour of 'is country' when the guns begin to shoot.
¶ "Tommy"
White hands cling to the bridle rein,
Slipping the spur from the booted heel;
Tenderest voices cry 'Turn again!'
Red lips tarnish the scabbarded steel;
Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,
He travels fastest who travels alone.
¶ (Attributed)
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble.
¶ (Attributed)
I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
¶ (Attributed)
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
¶ The Phantom 'Rickshaw
All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They.
¶ We and They (1926)
Four things greater than all things are, —
Women and Horses and Power and War.
¶ “The Ballad of the King’s Jest,” st. 5
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
¶ “The Law of the Jungle,” The Second Jungle Book (1899)
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