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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 Gods great Judgment 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 the earth!" — Rudyard Kipling
The Ballad of East and West Written in a poem by Kipling in 1889, it is very often quoted as an example of nationality, or race, being unimportant. Add Category or Author

Earth Famous Life Top 100

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"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble" — Rudyard Kipling
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"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours." — Rudyard Kipling
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English Writer Nature

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"Call a truce, then to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors And be merry as the custom of our caste; For if "faint and forced the laughter," and if sadness follow after, We are richer by one mocking Christmas past" — Rudyard Kipling
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Custom

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"He is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him." — Rudyard Kipling
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"For the female of the species is more deadly than the male." — Rudyard Kipling
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English Writer

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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." — Rudyard Kipling
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"East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet" — Rudyard Kipling
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"Prize, oh! Haul! shouted Dan, but the shout ended in a shrill, double shriek of horror, for out of the sea came - the body of the dead Frenchman buried two days before! The hook had caught him under the right armpit, and he swayed, erect and horrible, head and shoulders above water." — Rudyard Kipling
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"Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War" — Rudyard Kipling
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"A member of the most ancient profession in the world." — Rudyard Kipling
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Profession

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"Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs." — Rudyard Kipling
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English Writer

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"Payday came and with it beer" — Rudyard Kipling
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"She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green." — Rudyard Kipling
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"Gardens are not made by singing ""Oh, how beautiful,"" and sitting in the shade." — Rudyard Kipling
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"The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives ye led were mine" — Rudyard Kipling
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"Keep ye the Law - be swift in all obedience -/ Clear the land of evil, drive the road and bridge the ford." — Rudyard Kipling
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"On the road to Mandalay, / Where the flyin'-fishes play, / An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!" — Rudyard Kipling
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"I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who" — Rudyard Kipling
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". . . an angry skipper makes an unhappy crew . . ." — Rudyard Kipling
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"He's an absent-minded beggar, and his weaknesses are great - / But we and Paul must take him as we find him. / He's out on active service, wiping something off a slate - / And he's left a lot of little things behind him!" — Rudyard Kipling
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