If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
Rudyard KiplingNot getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
Rudyard KiplingAdam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.
Rudyard KiplingYe may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can; But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!
Rudyard KiplingOf course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.
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