Rudyard Kipling Quotes

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• In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.
• Not only do words infect, egotize, narcotize, and paralyze, but they enter into and colour the minutest cells of the brain. . . .
• San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.
• I keep six honest serving men.
• The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth
• I've taken my fun where I've found it.
• Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
• 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.…
• Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any…
• Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.
• If England was what England seems, And not the England of our dreams; But only putty, brass, and paint, 'Ow we'd chuck 'er- but she…
• We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the…
• Brother, thy tail hangs down behind.
• 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…
• He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.
• Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
• Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.
• They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.
• Smells are surer than sounds and sights to make the heartstrings crack.
• Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep... For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that an' Chuck him out, the brute! But…

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