Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 December 1865
CityMumbai, India
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Pass the hat for your credit's sake, and pay- pay - pay!
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Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was--like eating an egg without salt.
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Call a truce, then to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors And be merry as the custom of our caste; For if "faint and forced the laughter," and if sadness follow after, We are richer by one mocking Christmas past
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I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.
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If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price
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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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But, through the shift of mood and mood, Mine ancient humor saves him whole The cynic devil in his blood That bids him mock his hurrying soul; That bids him flout the Law he makes, That bids him make the Law he flouts, Till, dazed by many doubts, h
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Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching.
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He's an absent-minded beggar, and his weaknesses are great - / But we and Paul must take him as we find him. / He's out on active service, wiping something off a slate - / And he's left a lot of little things behind him!
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Gentlemen-Rankers out on the spree, / Damned from here to Eternity.
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I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who
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How very little, since things were made, / Things have altered in the building trade.
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For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'Grady / Are sisters under their skins!
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If he plays, being young and unskillful, For shekels of silver or gold, Take his money, my son praising Allah: The kid was ordained to be sold