Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.
Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.
O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.
The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things.
The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.
These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.
They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.
Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.
We had a kettle; we let it leak: Our not repairing made it worse. We haven't had any tea for a week... The bottom is out of the Universe.
When the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him.
Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.
Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work.
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