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101 " Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild. "
― Rudyard Kipling , Just So Stories
102 " These two things fight together in me as the snakes fight in the spring. The water comes out of my eyes; yet I laugh while it falls. Why? "
― Rudyard Kipling , The Jungle Book
103 " One of the beauties of Jungle Law is that punishment settles all scores. There is no nagging afterward. "
104 " If a man can hear the truth he's spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools.......... "
105 " The meaning of my star is war. "
― Rudyard Kipling , Kim
106 " I am more likely to give help than to ask it"—Bagheera stretched out one paw and admired the steel-blue, ripping-chisel talons at the end of it—"still I should like to know. "
107 " The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him. "
108 " madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature. "
109 " Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could. The "
110 " Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me who love him than that he should come to harm through ignorance, "
111 " Mark my trail... "
112 " You must not forget the suspenders, Best Beloved. "
113 " What is this," said the leopard,"that is so 'sclusively dark, and yet so full of little pieces of light? "
114 " Fit to do anything,” said the Second-in-Command enthusiastically. “But it seems to me they’re a thought too young and tender for the work in hand. It’s bitter cold up at the Front now.” “They’re sound enough,” said the Colonel. “We must take our chance of sick casualties. "
― Rudyard Kipling , The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated): 5 Novels & 440+ Short Stories, Complete Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings ... ... Land and Sea Tales, Captain Courageous…)
115 " He sat in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammeh, on her old platform, opposite the old Ajaib gher, the Wonder House, as the natives called the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that 'fire-breathing dragon', hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror's loot. "
116 " India was awake, and Kim was in the middle of it, more awake and more excited than anyone, chewing on a twig that he would presently use as a toothbrush; for he borrowed right- and left-handedly from all the customs of the country he knew and loved. "
117 " The Man went to sleep in front of the fire ever so happy; but the Woman sat up, combing her hair. She took the bone of the shoulder of mutton – the big fat blade bone – and she looked at the wonderful marks on it, and she threw more wood on the fire, and she made a Magic. She made the first Singing Magic in the world. "
118 " And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat" (23). "
119 " ... and when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up the Wet Wild Trees or on the Wet Wild Roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone. "
120 " but why should I waste wisdom on a river-turtle? "
― Rudyard Kipling , The Jungle Books