Rudyard Kipling — a remark

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“At least believe that you are not yet sufficiently important to be taken too seriously by the Powers above us or beneath us.”

Using humour and humility to counter youthful self-importance and despair. · 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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