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Kim

Rudyard Kipling

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“There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.”

“This is a brief life, but in its brevity it offers us some splendid moments, some meaningful adventures.”

“I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it-- those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this.”

“It is not a good fancy,' said the llama. 'What profit to kill men?' Very little - as I know; but if evil men were not now and then slain it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers.”

“Something I owe to the soil that grew— More to the life that fed— But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides to my head.”

“For Kim did nothing with an immense success.”

“No need to listen for the fall. This is the world's end.”

“I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim?" His soul repeated it again and again.”

“Those who beg in silence starve in silence,”

“[A Buddhist monk on a pilgrimage speaks to a museum curator.] And I come here alone. For five--seven--eighteen--forty years it was in my mind that the old Law was not well followed; being overlaid, as thou knowest, with devildom, charms, and idolatry....' So it comes with all faiths.”

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