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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

“In the flush of the hot June prime,
O'ersleek flood-tides afire,
I hear him hurry the chime
To the bidding of checked Desire;
Till the sweated ringers tire
And the wild bob-majors die.
Could I wait for my turn in the godly choir?
(Shoal! 'Ware shoal!) Not I!”

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Rudyard Kipling The Bell Buoy

The Bell Buoy.
Other works

“There is none like to me!' says the Cub in the pride of his earliest kill;
But the jungle is large and the Cub he is small. Let him think and be still.”

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Rudyard Kipling kniha The Jungle Book

Kaa's hunting.
The Jungle Book (1894)

“If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss.”

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Rudyard Kipling kniha The Second Jungle Book

Stanza 3.
The Second Jungle Book (1895), If— (1896)

“Go back to Earth with a lip unsealed—go back with an open eye,
“And carry my word to the Sons of Men or ever ye come to die:
“That the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one—
“And the God that you took from a printed book be with you, Tomlinson!”

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Tomlinson, l. 58-61.
Other works

“And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.”

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Rudyard Kipling The Betrothed

The Betrothed, Stanza 25.
Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886)
Varianta: And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke.

“We pulled for you when the wind was against us and the sails were low.
Will you never let us go?”

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Song of the Galley-Slaves http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p4/galleyslaves.html, l. 1-2 (1893). <br class="br">Other works

“Now I possess and am possessed of the land where I would be,
And the curve of half Earth's generous breast shall soothe and ravish me!”

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The Prairie http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/p2/prairie.html, Stanza 5. <br class="br">Other works

“I've taken my fun where I've found it,
An' now I must pay for my fun,
For the more you 'ave known o' the others
The less will you settle to one.”

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Rudyard Kipling kniha Barrack-Room Ballads

The Ladies, Stanza VII.
Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896)

“We have fed our sea for a thousand years
And she calls us, still unfed,
Though there's never a wave of all her waves
But marks our English dead.”

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The Song of the Dead http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/volumeXI/songdead.html, II, Stanza 1 (1896). <br class="br">The Seven Seas (1896)

“The tumult and the shouting dies;
The Captains and the Kings depart;
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget—lest we forget!”

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Rudyard Kipling Recessional

Stanza 2.
Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886), Recessional

“The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool!”

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Rudyard Kipling kniha Plain Tales from the Hills

Three and—an Extra.
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888)

“All gods have good points, just as have all priests. Personally, I attach much importance to Hanuman, and am kind to his people—the great gray apes of the hills. One never knows when one may want a friend.”

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Rudyard Kipling Life's Handicap

The Mark of the Beast.
Life's Handicap (1891)