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Ost ist Ost, und West ist West, und niemals treffen sich die beiden.
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Schriftsteller, Nobelpreis für Literatur/1907 (England, 1865 - 1936).
Rudyard Joseph Kipling · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Rudyard Joseph Kipling wäre heute 158 Jahre, 10 Monate, 10 Tage oder 58.023 Tage alt.
Geboren am 30.12.1865 in Bombay
Gestorben am 18.01.1936 in London
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Worte sind das stärkste Rauschgift, das die Menschheit verwendet.
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'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
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'We be one blood, thou and I', Mowgli answered. 'I take my life from thee to-night. My kill shall be thy kill if ever thou art hungry, O Kaa.'
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A fool there was and he made his prayer (Even as you and I!) To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair (We called her the woman who did not care) But the fool he called her his lady fair- (Even as you and I!).
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A Nation spoke to a Nation, A Throne sent word to a Throne: 'Daughter am I in my mother's house, But mistress in my own. The gates are mine to open, As the gates are mine to close, And I abide by my Mother's House.' Said our Lady of the Snows.
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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
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All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
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All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They. And They live over the sea, while We live over the way. But - would you believe it? - They look upon we As only a sort of They.
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All we have of freedom - all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
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An' I seed her first a-smokin' of a whackin' white cheroot, An' a-wastin' Christian kisses on an 'eathen idol's foot.
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And he went back through the Wet Wild Woods, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone. But he never told anybody.
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And here the sea-fogs lap and cling And here, each warning each, The sheep-bells and the ship-bells ring Along the hidden beach.
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And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame; And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separatestar, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They are!
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, with the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear: 'A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.'
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And the small 'Stute Fish said in a small 'stute voice, 'Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever tasted Man?' 'No,' said the Whale. 'What is it like?' 'Nice,' said the small 'Stute Fish. 'Nice but nubbly.'
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And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south, With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth. Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War.
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And Ye take mine honour from me if Ye take away the sea!
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As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man- There are only four things certain since Social Progress began: - That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire.
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Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.