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“The only advantage I have over you is that you have not yet the words in which to express your knowledge, and—you are not allowed to contradict me.”

A humorous acknowledgement of the knowledge children possess before they have the language to articulate it. · Speech, School Experiences, 1929

About Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

30 December 1865–18 January 1936

Rudyard Kipling was born Joseph Rudyard Kipling on December 30, 1865, in the bustling colonial port of Bombay, British India, a city that would forever pulse through his veins like the monsoon rains and the clamor of its streets. He died on January 18, 1936, in London, England, at the age of seventy, his body laid to…

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