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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (/ˈrʌdjərd/ RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist.

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A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.

Cities, England, Fog, Summer

They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods

Know, Nature, Rain, Seventy, Shut, Years

No one as yet has approached the management of New York in a proper spirit; that is to say, regarding it as the shiftless outcome of squalid barbarism and reckless extravagance. No one is likely to do so, because reflections on the long narrow pig-trough are construed as malevolent attacks against the spirit and majesty of the American people, and lead to angry comparisons.

Angry, Comparisons, New York, Pigs, Reflection, Reflections

No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.

Grass, Green, Thinking, Winter

The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

Army, Blindness, Eathen, Men, Military

We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And the nation that plays it is lost!

Cost, Games, Matter, Nation, Oppression, Play

Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.

Ears, Hope, Proper, Self Harm, Way, Women

We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; It's clever, but is it art?

Art, Dog, Drawn, Horse, Old

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man; But it takes a very clever woman to manage a fool. I never made a mistake in my life; At least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards

Certainty, Clever, Men, Mistake, Species, Woman

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

Gods, Littles, Politicians, Tin, Wheels

The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

Care, Life, Lovely, World

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Mad, Insanity, Psychological, Point, Everyone

No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise; Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes. On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!

Doubt, Heads, Lying, Strong, Wise

Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.

Beauty, Memories, Men, Stay, Talk, Women

Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out, and start their working lives By grubbing weeds from garden paths with broken dinner knives.

Garden, Grubbing, Lives, Men, Shade, Weed

Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.

Dream, Follow

And what should they know of England who only England know?

England, Know, Knows, Should

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

Men, Mind, Tell, Tower, Towers, Wont

Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.

Horse, War, Four, Things, Power

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

Absolute Certainty, Accurate, Certainty, Guess, Intuition, Women

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