“Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood”

—  Rudyard Kipling

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English short-story writer, poet, and novelist 1865–1936

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