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• The great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees.

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• But there was one Elephant—a new Elephant—an Elephant’s Child—who was full of ’satiable curtiosity, and that means he asked ever so many questions.

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• There lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour.

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• ‘Humph yourself!’ And the Camel humphed himself.

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• Most ’scruciating idle.

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• The cure for this ill is not to sit still, Or frowst with a book by the fire; But to take a large hoe and a shovel also, And dig till you gently perspire.

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• The camel’s hump is an ugly lump Which well you may see at the Zoo; But uglier yet is the hump we get From having too little to do.

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• He had his Mummy’s leave to paddle, or else he would never have done it, because he was a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity.

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• You must not forget the suspenders, Best Beloved.

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• ‘Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever tasted Man?’ ‘No,’ said the Whale. ‘What is it like?’ ‘Nice,’ said the small ’Stute Fish. ‘Nice but nubbly.’

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• One does not own to the possession of money in India.

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• Men are as chancy as children in their choice of playthings.

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• Being human, she must have been afraid of something, but one never found out what it was.

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• Mr Raymond Martin, beyond question, was born in the gutter, and bred in a Board-School, where they played marbles. He was further (I give the barest handful from great store) a Flopshus Cad, an Outrageous Stinker, a Jelly-bellied Flag-flapper (this was Stalky’s contribution), and several other things which it is not seemly to put down.

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• When you’ve shouted ‘Rule Britannia’, when you’ve sung ‘God save the Queen’— When you’ve finished killing Kruger with your mouth— Will you kindly drop a shilling in my little tambourine For a gentleman in Kharki ordered South?

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• By all ye will or whisper, By all ye leave or do, The silent sullen peoples Shall weigh your God and you.

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• Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half devil and half child.

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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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• What the horses o’ Kansas think to-day, the horses of America will think tomorrow; an’ I tell you that when the horses of America rise in their might, the day o’ the Oppressor is ended.

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• If, drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe— Such boasting as the Gentiles use, Or lesser breeds without the Law.

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Birth:	30th December, 1865
Death:	18th January, 1936
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Journalist, Novelist, Poet, Writer

About

oseph Rudyard Kipling 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. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old.

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