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Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

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.

No need to listen for the fall. This is the world's end.

No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

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.

Of all said words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these it might have been.

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.

One cannot resist the lure of Africa.

She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.

The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.

The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things.

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

There is but one task for all -- One life for each to give. What stands if Freedom fall?

There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.

There's no jealousy in the grave.

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.

This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

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