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Rudyard Kipling

English author and journalist; b. 1865; d. 1936

Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist

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A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

Rudyard Kipling, in Men and Women and Vice and Virtue

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Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was like eating an egg without salt.

Rudyard Kipling, in Men and Women

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We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!

Rudyard Kipling, in Success and Failure