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Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
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Rudyard Kipling
Age: 70 †
Born: 1865
Born: December 30
Died: 1936
Died: January 18
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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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Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack.
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War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
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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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I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.
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If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.
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If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.
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