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Rudyard Kipling

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Born 1865 in Mumbai · Died 1936 in London

writer, novelist, poet, screenwriter, journalist · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Notable works: The Jungle Book, Kim, If—, The Second Jungle Book, Just So Stories

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Rewards and Fairies

From Project Gutenberg e-text #556 (public domain in the USA).

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings--nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And--which is more--you’ll be a Man, my son!

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The Jungle Book

From Project Gutenberg e-text #236 (public domain in the USA).

He whistled with surprise when he saw Mowgli being dragged up to a treetop and heard him give the Kite call for--“We be of one blood, thou and I.” The waves of the branches closed over the boy, but Rann balanced away to the next tree in time to see the little brown face come up again.

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One of the beauties of Jungle Law is that punishment settles all scores. There is no nagging afterward.

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The Man Who Would Be King

From Project Gutenberg e-text #8147 (public domain in the USA).

“Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy.”

— Spoken by a character

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Plain Tales from the Hills

From Project Gutenberg e-text #1858 (public domain in the USA).

She guessed--a woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty--that he had meant to go from the first, and with Mrs. Hauksbee.

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The Light That Failed

From Project Gutenberg e-text #2876 (public domain in the USA).

Who’s the man that says that we’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding?

— Spoken by a character · Chapter V

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