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When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.

Rudyard Kipling

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Rudyard Kipling
Age: 70 †
Born: 1865
Born: December 30
Died: 1936
Died: January 18
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