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He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

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Rudyard Kipling
Age: 70 †
Born: 1865
Born: December 30
Died: 1936
Died: January 18
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There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.
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There's a Legion that never was 'listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, Is breaking the road for the rest.
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There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.
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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
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Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.
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There aren't twelve-hundred people in the world who understand pictures. The others pretend and don't care.
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I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.
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San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.
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When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and the youngest critic has died, We shall rest, and, faith, we shall need it lie down for an aeon or two, Till the Master of All Good Workmen shall put us to work anew!
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The motto of all the mongoose family is, Run and find out, and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.
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How can you do anything until you have seen everything,or as much as you can?
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Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep... For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that an' Chuck him out, the brute! But it's Saviour of his country, when the guns begins to shoot!
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Never was isle so little, never was sea so lone, But over the scud and the palm-trees an English flag was flown.
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An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
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Like the destroyer, the submarine has created its own type of officer and man with language and traditions apart from the rest of the service, and yet at the heart unchangingly of the Service
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Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
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Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew — (Twenty bridges or twenty two) — Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told.
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Also, we will make promise. So long as The Blood endures, I shall know that your good is mine: ye shall feel that my strength is yours: In the day of Armageddon, at the last great fight of all, That Our House stand together and the pillars do not fall.
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