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Quote by Rudyard Kipling
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the

And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear: A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East. – Rudyard Kipling

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Call a truce, then, to our labors — let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if faint and forced the laughter, and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past. – Rudyard Kipling

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Holidays
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There was an old man of Quebec,
Who was buried in snow to his neck.
When asked, – Rudyard Kipling

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And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but weve proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane. – Rudyard Kipling

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Take up the White Mans burden — send forth the best ye breed — go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need. – Rudyard Kipling

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An empire is an immense egotism. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield. – William Morris Hughes

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We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind. – Sir John Robert Seeley

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