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Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling: How To Be A Man

Some more timeless wisdom from Rudyard Kipling: If … If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But …

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“We get to think the world is progressing when it is only repeating itself.”

If we pay no attention to words whatever, we may become like the isolated gentleman who invents a new perpetual-motion machine on old lines in ignorance of all previous plans, and then is surprised …

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