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Rudyard Kipling

English writer and poet, Nobel Prize 1907, 1865–1936. Explained quotes.

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About Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay and became one of the most popular writers in English, with The Jungle Book, Kim and the Just So Stories. In 1907 he became the first English-language writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. His views on empire make him a contested figure today.

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  • “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.”
    If—, in Rewards and Fairies, 1910
  • “If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same.”
    If—, in Rewards and Fairies, 1910
  • “Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, and—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!”
    If—, in Rewards and Fairies, 1910