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Schriftsteller, Nobelpreis für Literatur/1907 (England, 1865 - 1936).

Rudyard Joseph Kipling · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Rudyard Joseph Kipling wäre heute 158 Jahre, 3 Monate, 24 Tage oder 57.823 Tage alt.

Geboren am 30.12.1865 in Bombay
Gestorben am 18.01.1936 in London
Sternzeichen: ♑ Steinbock

• Brother, thy tail hangs down behind!

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• But I consort with long-haired things In velvet collar-rolls, Who talk about the Aims of Art, And 'theories' and 'goals', And moo and coo with women-folk About their blessed souls.

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• By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me; For the wind is in the palm-trees, an' the temple-bells they say: 'Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!' Come you back to Mandalay, Where the old flotilla lay: Can't you 'ear their paddles chunkin' from Rangoon to Mandalay? On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comesup like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• Call to mind the image of an earlier success - it will help you to succeed again.

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• Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

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• England's on the anvil-hear the hammers ring- Clanging from the Severn to the Tyne! Never was a blacksmith like our Norman King- England's being hammered, hammered, hammered into line!

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• Every one is more or less mad on one point.

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• Far-called our navies melt away - On dune and headland sinks the fire - Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh, and Tyre!

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• Five and twenty ponies, Trotting through the dark- Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk; Laces for a lady, letters for a spy, Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!

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• Foot-foot-foot-foot-sloggin' over Africa- (Boots-boots-boots-boots-movin' up and down again!).

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• For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' 'Chuck him out, the brute!' But it's 'Saviour of 'is country' when the guns begin to shoot.

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• For the sin ye do by two and two ye must pay for one by one!

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• For they're hangin' Danny Deever, you can hear the Dead March play, The regiment's in 'ollow square-they're hangin' him to-day; They've taken of his buttons off an' cut his stripes away, An' they're hangin' Danny Deever in the mornin'.

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• He had his Mummy's leave to paddle, or else he would never have done it, because he was a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity.

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• He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.

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• I had six honest serving men - they taught me all I knew: Their names were Where and What and When - and Why and How and Who.

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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.

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• I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.

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• I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.

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• If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied.

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