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Rudyard Kipling
Age: 70 †
Born: 1865
Born: December 30
Died: 1936
Died: January 18
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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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One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.
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OH, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!
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If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
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It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.
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I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.
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He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.
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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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Sing, for faith and hope are high- None so true as you and I- Sing the Lovers' Litany: Love like ours can never die!
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If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim.
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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
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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.
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Believe the best of everybody.
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Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.
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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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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's 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.
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God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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Funny how the new things are the old things.
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All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
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