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Rudyard Kipling

English author of novels and poetry who was born in India (1865-1936)

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All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.
All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels fastest who travels alone.
Every woman knows all about everything.
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
Funny how the new things are the old things.
Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade.
He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble.
I kep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.
If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run— Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And—you'll be a Man, my son!
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them 'Hold on'
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too . . . If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same . . . Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it.
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
On the road to Mandalay Where the flyin' fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the bay.
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain Once there was The People - it shall never be again
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
The sin they do two by two they must pay for one by one.
There is no sin greater than ignorance.
There's no jealousy in the grave.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will be when you can no longer help it.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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