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Rudyard Kipling

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I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.


— Rudyard Kipling


#call #chicago #city #desire #i

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.


— Rudyard Kipling


#asia #civilized #going #methods #much

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.


— Rudyard Kipling


#always #believe #everybody #i #i always

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.


— Rudyard Kipling


#man #mind #more #seven #sitting

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.


— Rudyard Kipling


#grant #heaven #love #man #us

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.


— Rudyard Kipling


#good #only #smoke #woman

A people always ends by resembling its shadow.


— Rudyard Kipling


#ends #people #resembling #shadow

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.


— Rudyard Kipling


#fill #minute #run #seconds #sixty

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


— Rudyard Kipling


#lend #nature #neighbours #trouble #your

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.


— Rudyard Kipling


#clever man #fool #man #manage #needs






About Rudyard Kipling

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Did you know about Rudyard Kipling?

Kipling so loved his masonic experience that he memorialised its ideals in his famous poem "The Mother Lodge". He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works are said to exhibit "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".

George Orwell called him a "prophet of British imperialism". : /ˈrʌdjəd ˈkɪplɪŋ/ RUD-yəd KIP-ling; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English short-story writer poet and novelist chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India and his tales for children. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in England in both prose and verse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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