In the Neolithic Age, Stanza 5 (1895).
The Seven Seas (1896)
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The Law of the Jungle, Stanzas 1 and 2.
The Second Jungle Book (1895)
Context: p>Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the Law runneth forward and back;
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.</p
"Fiction", speech to the Royal Society of Literature, June 1926; published in Writings on Writing: Rudyard Kipling (1996), ed. Sandra Kemp and Lisa Lewis, p. 80 http://books.google.com/books?id=-AQStA5QMjwC&q=%22elder+sister%22&pg=PA80
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The Ballad of East and West (1889).
Other works
Context: Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, border, nor breed, nor birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
Stanza 4.
The Second Jungle Book (1895), If— (1896)
Context: 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!
“If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.”
Source: The Collected Works
“We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.”
Source: The Light That Failed
“For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.”
The Law of the Jungle, Stanzas 1 and 2.
The Second Jungle Book (1895)
Source: The Jungle Book
Context: p>Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the Law runneth forward and back;
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.</p
“I am the cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.”
The Cat that Walked by Himself.
Just So Stories (1902)
Source: The Cat That Walked By Himself
The Elephant's Child.
Just So Stories (1902)
Speech, quoted in The Times (February 15, 1923).
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Variant: Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
“For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.”
The Courting of Dinah Shadd (1890).
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“You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.”
Source: The Light That Failed
“For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.”
The Female of the Species, Stanza 1 (1911).
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Variant: The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.
Source: The Light That Failed
“Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.”
Source: Complete Verse