“Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end;
Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise,
Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice.”

—  Rudyard Kipling

The Islanders, l. 55-57.
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English short-story writer, poet, and novelist 1865–1936

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