I Keep Six Honest Serving Men
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I Keep Six Honest Serving Men
‘I believe the British introduced a sense of justice in India. I’ll give you an amusing example. When I was young, there was a crowd of us walking in the road in Delhi. A British Tommy bumped into us on a bicycle. We shouted, “Why can’t you look where you’re going?” He replied, “Why are you walking in the road, not on the pavement?” I then pointed
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We can only walk one step at a time in this world, praise God!
Rudyard Kipling • Kim (Illustrated edition)
‘I can think, I can wait, I can fast.’
HERMANN HESSE • SIDDHARTHA
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs ... If you can wait and not be tired by waiting ... If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim ... If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you ... Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it.” - Rudyard Kipling, abbreviated from “If—-”
I remember an English lad who was always the life of the crew, but whom we afterwards lost overboard, standing for nearly ten minutes at the galley, with this pot of tea in his hand, waiting for a chance to get down into the forecastle; and seeing what he thought was a "smooth spell," started to go forward. He had just got to the end of t
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