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Ich habe vergessen, wie das Restaurant hieß. Auch habe ich vergessen, wie das Mädchen hieß. Aber ich weiß, dass ich eine echte Montechristo geraucht habe.
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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, 9 Tage oder 58.022 Tage alt.
Geboren am 30.12.1865 in Bombay
Gestorben am 18.01.1936 in London
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If England was what England seems, an' not the England of our dreams, but only putty, brass and paint, 'ow quick we'd chuck her! But she ain't!
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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don'tgive way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream-and not make dreams your master; If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same . . .
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If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a Man, my son!
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If, drunk with sight of power, we loose Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe- Such boasting as the Gentiles use, Or lesser breeds without the Law.
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It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look important and to say:- 'Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you, We will therefore pay you cash to go away.' And that is called paying theDane-geld; But we've proved it again and again, That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld You never get rid of the Dane.
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It's north you may run to the rime-ringed sun, Or south to the blind Horn's hate; Or east all the way into Mississippi Bay, Or west to the Golden Gate.
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Lalun is a member of the most ancient profession in the world.
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Little Friend of all the World.
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Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
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More men have died from overwork than the importance of the word justifies.
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Mr Raymond Martin, beyond question, was born in a gutter, and bred in a Board-School, where they played marbles. He was further (I give the barest handful from great store) a Flopshus Cad, an Outrageous Stinker, a Jelly-bellied Flag-flapper . . . and several other things which it is not seemly to put down.
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Now this is the Law of the Jungle-as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
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Of all the trees that grow so fair, Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun, Than Oak, and Ash, and Thorn.
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Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgement Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of earth!
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One Elephant - a new Elephant - an Elephant's Child - who was full of 'satiable curiosity.
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One man in a thousand, Solomon says, Will stick more close than a brother.
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Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing:-'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out and start their working lives At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives.
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Politicians: little tin Gods on wheels.
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Power without responsibility: the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
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San Francisco is a mad city-inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.