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He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard Kipling
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Rudyard Kipling
Age: 70 †
Born: 1865
Born: December 30
Died: 1936
Died: January 18
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More quotes by Rudyard Kipling
Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.
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Ye 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!
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Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain!
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I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.
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The silliest woman can manage a clever man but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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There was a young man of Quebec Who was frozen in snow to his neck, When asked, 'Are you Friz?' He replied, 'Yes I is, But we don't call this cold in Quebec.'
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And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.
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Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
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What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?
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All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman , and am kind to his people the great gray apes of the hills. One never knows when one may want a friend.
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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
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I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew) Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.
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If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!
Rudyard Kipling
There's no jealousy in the grave.
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There is no harm in a man's cub.
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One man in a thousand, Solomon says. Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him half your days If you find him before the other. ---The Thousandth Man
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But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.
Rudyard Kipling
I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.
Rudyard Kipling
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
Rudyard Kipling
Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.
Rudyard Kipling
