Quote by Rudyard Kipling
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the

And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East. – Rudyard Kipling

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When youre wounded and left on Afghanistans plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. – Rudyard Kipling

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Keep our Empire undismembered guide our Forces by Thy Hand, gallant blacks from far Jamaica, Honduras and Togoland; protect them Lord in all their fights, and even more, protect the whites. – John Betjeman

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A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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An empire is an immense egotism. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Empires built on force will always be destroyed. Those built on trust in Christ will remain. – Joseph R. Sizoo

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Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948. – Simon Raven

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War is cruelty, and none can make it gentle. – Gilbert Parker

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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. – J. K. Rowling

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