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It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:- 'Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you, We will therefore pay you cash to go away.'

Rudyard Kipling

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Rudyard Kipling
Age: 70 †
Born: 1865
Born: December 30
Died: 1936
Died: January 18
Author
Autobiographer
Journalist
Novelist
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Screenwriter
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Joseph Rudyard Kipling
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Therefore
Puff
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Pay
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Nation
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Though
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Away
Meet
Indolence

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