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Rudyard Kipling

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, novelist, poet and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.

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Quotes from Rudyard Kipling

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

—Rudyard Kipling

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

—Rudyard Kipling

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

—Rudyard Kipling

If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.

—Rudyard Kipling

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

—Rudyard Kipling

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

—Rudyard Kipling

It's clever, but is it Art?

—Rudyard Kipling

He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

—Rudyard Kipling

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

—Rudyard Kipling