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Rudyard Kipling
Age: 70 †
Born: 1865
Born: December 30
Died: 1936
Died: January 18
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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, Manling.
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As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
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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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Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.
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I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.
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They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.
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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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