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Back to the army again, sergeant, / Back to the army again, / Out o' the cold an' the rain.

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

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A woman is just a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

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There's no jealousy in the grave.

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

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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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They copied all they could follow but they couldn't copy my mind so I left them sweating and stealing a year and a half behind

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If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

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Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - it shall never be again!

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The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces

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And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,

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`This man', said M'Turk, with conviction, `is the Gadarene Swine,'

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I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.

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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 make allowance for their doubting too . . . If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same . . . Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it.

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'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.

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The coastwise lights of England watch the ships of England go!

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Here we sit in a branchy row, Thinking of beautiful things we know; Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do, All complete in a minute or two-- Something noble and grand and good, Won by merely wishing we could. Now we're going to -- never mind, Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!

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Now this is the Law of the Jungle - as old and as true as the sky.

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God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all.

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