Rudyard Kipling Quotes

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We're poor little lambs who've lost our way,
Baa! Baa! Baa!
We're little black sheep who've gone astray,
Baa—aa—aa!
Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree,
Damned from here to Eternity,
God ha' mercy on such as we,
Baa! Yah! Bah!

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All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman, and am kind to his people—the great gray apes of the hills. One never knows when one may want a friend.

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The book was amazing, and full of quotations that one could hurl like a javelin.

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San Francisco is a mad city—inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people, whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

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If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same.

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He shall mark our goings, question whence we came,
Set his guards about us, as in Freedom's name.
He shall peep and mutter, and night shall bring
Watchers 'neath our window, lest we mock the King.

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Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges—
Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!

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I keep six honest serving-men:
(They taught me all I knew)
Their names are What and Where and When
And How and Why and Who.

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I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.

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Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should,
We have had no end of a lesson: it will do us no end of good.
Of the Boer Wars

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I was aware of a little grey shadow, as it might have been a snowflake seen against the light, floating at an immense distance in the background of my brain.

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Something I owe to the soil that grew-More to the life that fed-But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides of my head. I would go without shirt or shoes, Friends, tobacco, or bread Sooner than for an instant lose Either side of my head.

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Oh the road to Mandalay
Where the flyin'-fishes play
An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer
China 'crost the Bay!

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The great gray-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees.

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Or little, lost, Down churches praise
The Lord who made the hills.

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'There is none like to me!' says the Cub in the pride of his earliest kill;
But the jungle is large and the Cub he is small. Let him think and be still.

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Five and twenty ponies,
Trotting through the dark—
Brandy for the Parson,
'Baccy for the Clerk;
Laces for a lady, letters for a spy,
Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!

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They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think he would squander souls?

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He's an absent-minded beggar and his weaknesses are great—
But we and Paul must take him as we find him.

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He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.

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After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.

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You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

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For to admire an' for to see,
For to be'old this world so wide—
It never done no good to me,
But I can't drop it if I tried!

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Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
Where there aren't no Ten Commandments, an' a man can raise a thirst.

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They settled things by making up a saying, 'What the Bandar-log think now the Jungle will think later': and that comforted them a great deal.

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We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too,
But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you;
An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints,
Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

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Of all the trees that grow so fair,
Old England to adorn,
Greater are none beneath the Sun,
Than Oak, and Ash, and Thorn.

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If blood be the price of admiralty,
Lord God, we ha' paid in full!

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There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays,
And every single one of them is right!

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