The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
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Not the great nor well-bespoke,But the mere uncounted folk
Of whose life and death is none
Report or lamentation.
Rudyard Kipling
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.
Rudyard Kipling
Love at first sight was 'er trouble,
She didn't know what it were;
An' I wouldn't do such, 'cause I liked 'er too much,
But -- I learned about women from 'er!
Rudyard Kipling
Fifty-nine year old Richard Smith, of Sylvania Township, doesn't need a state poet laureate - or someone like Maya Angelou reading a poem at Bill Clinton's 1993 presidential inauguration - to appreciate poetry. He instantly knew his favorite poem If ... If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
Rudyard Kipling
Duke's son - cook's son - son of a hundred kings - (Fifty thousand horse and foot going to Table Bay).
Rudyard Kipling
Home I came at wintertide,
But my silly love had died
Seeking with her latest breath
Roses from the arms of Death.
Rudyard Kipling
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