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Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling

English writer

Lived from: 1865 - 1936

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 30 december 1865 Died: 18 january 1936

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  • Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching he proper ears.
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  • Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
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  • Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
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  • Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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  • Take up the White Man's burden - send forth the best ye breed - go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.
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  • There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.
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  • There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.
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  • This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.
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  • War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
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  • We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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  • When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
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  • Words are the most powerful drugs used by mankind.
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  • Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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  • Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
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