Rudyard Kipling — a remark

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“You may succeed, you may be successful, you may acquire enormous wealth. In which case I warn you that you stand in grave danger of being spoken of as a smart man.”

A humorous warning that worldly success can become a moral liability. · Speech, Values in Life, 1907

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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