Literary and Philosophical Quotes -- Poets and Dreamers -- Rudyard Kipling
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Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936, British writer whose major works, including the short story "The Man Who Would Be King" (1889), a collection of children's stories, The Jungle Book (1894), and the novel Kim (1901), are set in British-occupied India. He won the 1907 Nobel Prize for literature.
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; And if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.
San Francisco is a mad city- inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
Machinery:
But remember please, the Law by which we live, We are not built to comprehend a lie, We can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.
And what should they know of England who only England know?
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
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