“Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne,
He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
Soldiers Three, The Winners (L'Envoi: What Is the Moral?) http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p2/winners.html, Stanza 1 (1888). <br class="br">Other works
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English short-story writer, poet, and novelist 1865–1936Related quotes
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