“Now these are the Laws of the jungle, and many and mighty are they;
But the head and the hoof of the Law and the haunch and the hump is—Obey!”

— Rudyard Kipling , book The Second Jungle Book

The Law of the Jungle, Stanza 19.
The Second Jungle Book (1895)

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

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