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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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Stand up, stand up now, Tomlinson, and answer loud and high
The good that ye did for the sake of men or ever ye came to die—
The good that ye did for the sake of men in little earth so lone!
And the naked soul of Tomlinson grew white as a rain-washed bone.
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I have eaten your bread and salt.
I have drunk your water and wine.
The deaths ye died I have watched beside
And the lives ye led were mine.
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I am the cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.
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A scrimmage in a Border Station—
A canter down some dark defile—
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail—
The Crammer's boast, the Squadron's pride,
Shot like a rabbit in a ride!
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When young lips have drunk deep of the bitter waters of hate, suspicion and despair, all the love in the world will not wholly take away that knowledge. Though it may turn darkened eyes for a while to the light, and teach faith where no faith was.
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At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.
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For you all love the screw-guns the screw-guns they all love you!
So when we take tea with a few guns, o' course you will know what to do—hoo! hoo!
Jest send in your Chief an' surrender it's worse if you fights or you runs:
You may hide in the caves, they'll be only your graves, but you can't get away from the guns!
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I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble.
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That's the secret. 'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walk down a street.
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If the aunt of the vicar has never touched liquor, watch out when she finds the Champagne.
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Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.
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Father, Mother, and Me,
Sister and Auntie say
All the people like us are We,
And every one else is They.
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Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.
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There's a Legion that never was 'listed,
That carries no colours or crest,
But, split in a thousand detachments,
Is breaking the road for the rest.
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Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Born:
December 30, 1865
Died:
January 18, 1936
(aged 70)
Bio:
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
Known for:
The Jungle Book (1894)
Just So Stories (1902)
The Second Jungle Book (1895)
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1893)
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