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And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows.

And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows.

Rudyard Kipling
Rose, Bud, Fit
Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.762, Wordsworth Editions

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

Rudyard Kipling
Men, Mind, Towers
Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.406, Wordsworth Editions

We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; It's clever, but is it art?

Rudyard Kipling
Dog, Art, Horse
'The Conundrum of the Workshops' (1892)

A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.

Rudyard Kipling
Fire, Doe, Pieces

But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.

Rudyard Kipling
Angel, Forever, Hammers
Rudyard Kipling (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)”, p.6263, Delphi Classics

And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth; Four things greater than all things are Women and Horses and Power and War.

Rudyard Kipling
Horse, War, Puff
'The Ballad of the King's Jest' (1892)

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