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Rudyard Kipling
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Definition:[1865 - 1936]A British novelist and poet. Best known for The Jungle Book and Gunga Din.
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You Lazarushian-leather Gunga Din!
Though I've belted you and flayed you,
By the livin' Gawd that made you,
You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!
Rudyard Kipling. Gunga Din
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If Chippendale couldn't help laughing when fate deprived him of a large sum of money, it seemed to indicate a nobility of character that demanded respect. He stood revealed as the sort of man Rudyard Kipling wrote "If" about.
P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, p.156 (1971)
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“You recall Kipling: une femme est une femme, mais un Caporal est une cigarette? Now we need matches.”
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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