190 ordspråk av Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
`Confound Romance!' . . . And all unseen / Romance brought up the nine-fifteen.
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`Let us now praise famous men' - / Men of little showing - / For their work continueth, / And their work continueth, / Broad and deep continueth, / Greater than their knowing!
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`This man', said M'Turk, with conviction, `is the Gadarene Swine,'
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`We be of one blood, thou and I,' Mowgli answered, `. . . my kill shall be thy kill if ever thou art hungry.'
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. . . an angry skipper makes an unhappy crew . . .
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'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor / With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?
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'E's all 'ot sand an' ginger when alive, / An' 'e's generally shammin' when 'e's dead.
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[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.
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A brave heart and a courteous tongue. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling.
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A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
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A member of the most ancient profession in the world.
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A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
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A-wastin' Christian kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot.
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