Kipling

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, .... The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
- All from Joseph Rudyard Kipling, 1865 - 1936

About: Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born at Bombay, India on 30 Dec in 1865, son of the headmaster of a school there. At five the boy was sent to school in England, although poor health prevented his attending for several years, and he returned to India at seventeen. He worked as a newspaper writer and editor, turning out short stories and poems on the side. By the time he returned to England in 1889 he was famous for both poetry and satire, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.

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