Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, thr… - Rudyard Kipling

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Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood

Rudyard Kipling

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, novelist and journalist, born in India. In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first English language writer to receive it. He remains, over a century later, its youngest-ever recipient.

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Birth Name: Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Alternative Names: R. Kipling • Kipling

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Send forth the best ye breed—
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need.

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That carries no colours or crest,
But, split in a thousand detachments,
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