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“A scrimmage in a Border Station—
A canter down some dark defile—
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail—
The Crammer's boast, the Squadron's pride,
Shot like a rabbit in a ride!”

Rudyard Kipling Arithmetic on the Frontier

Arithmetic on the Frontier, Stanza 3.
Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886)

“More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.”

Rudyard Kipling

The Phantom &#x27;Rickshaw http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/PhantomRickshaw/phantomrickshaw.html (1888). <br class="br">Other works

“A fool there was and he made his prayer
(Even as you and I!)
To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair
We called her the woman who did not care),
But the fool he called her his lady fair”

Rudyard Kipling

Even as you and I! <br class="br"> The Vampire http://www.readprint.com/work-973/The-Vampire-Rudyard-Kipling, Stanza 1. <br class="br">Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886)

“This man in his own country prayed we know not to what powers.
We pray them to reward him for his bravery in ours.”

Rudyard Kipling

Hindu Sepoy in France
Epitaphs of the War (1914-1918) (1918)

“Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin' up and down again!
There's no discharge in the war!”

Rudyard Kipling

Boots, Stanza 1 (1903).
Other works

“It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is “Run and find out,” and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.”

Rudyard Kipling book The Jungle Book

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi http://www.gutenberg.org/files/236/236-h/236-h.htm#link2H_4_0009 <br class="br">The Jungle Book (1894)

“You may talk o' gin and beer
When you're quartered safe out 'ere,
An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it;
But when it comes to slaughter
You will do your work on water,
An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.”

Rudyard Kipling book Barrack-Room Ballads

Gunga Din, Stanza 1.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“I speak now from my home and from my heart to you all; to men and women so cut off by the snows, the desert, or the sea, that only voices out of the air can reach them.”

Rudyard Kipling

King George V&#x27;s Christmas broadcast, 1932 http://www.royalinsight.gov.uk/output/Page3643.asp <br class="br">Other works

“But that's another story.”

Rudyard Kipling book Soldiers Three

Soldiers Three, The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black and White (1888).
Other works

“When you get to a man in the case,
They're like as a row of pins -
For the Colonel's Lady an' Judy O'Grady
Are sisters under their skins! ”

Rudyard Kipling

“When next he came to me he was drunk—royally drunk on many poets for the first time revealed to him. His pupils were dilated, his words tumbled over each other, and he wrapped himself in quotations—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of emperors.”

Rudyard Kipling

The Finest Story in the World http://www.telelib.com/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/ManyInventions/fineststory.html (1893). <br class="br">Other works

“Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should,
We have had no end of a lesson: it will do us no end of good.”

Rudyard Kipling

The Lesson, Stanza 1 (1899-1902).
Other works

“There is no middle way in this war. We do not doubt our ultimate victory any more than we doubt the justice of our cause.It is not conceivable that we should fail, for if we fail the lights of freedom go out over the whole world. They may glimmer for a little in the western hemisphere,but a Germany dominating half the world by sea and land will most certainly extinguish them in every quarter where they have hitherto shone upon mankind, so that even the traditions of freedom will pass out of remembrance. If we do our duty we shall not fail.”

Rudyard Kipling

“There are only two divisions in the world to-day — human beings and Germans. And the German knows it. Human beings have long ago sickened of him and everything connected with him,of all he does, says, thinks and believes.”

Rudyard Kipling

Speech at Southport, June 22, 1915. Quoted in The New York Times Current History, Volume 2; Volume 4. New York Times Company, 1917. Also quoted in Paul Piazza, Christopher Isherwood: Myth and Anti-Myth. Columbia Univesity Press, 2010 (p.217).

“There is none like to me!”

Rudyard Kipling book The Jungle Book

says the Cub in the pride of his earliest kill;
But the jungle is large and the Cub he is small. Let him think and be still.
Kaa's hunting.
The Jungle Book (1894)

“Very many Americans have an offensive habit of referring to natives as `heathen.' Mahommedans and Hindus are heathen alike in their eyes.”

Rudyard Kipling

Source: From Sea to Sea vol. 2, p. 61

“Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.”

Rudyard Kipling