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“everyone is not made in the same way”

“now don’t be angry after you’ve been afraid. that’s the worst kind of cowardice”
“anybody can be forgiven for being scared in the night l, I think, if they see things they don’t understand”

“these two things fight together in me as the snakes fight in the spring”

“men are only men […] and their talk is like the talk of frogs in a pond”

“One of the beauties of Jungle Law is that punishment settles all scores. There is no nagging afterwards”

“because i had learned the ways of men, i became more terrible in the jungle”

“and he grew and grew strong as a boy who must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat”