More from Rudyard Kipling
- Just So Stories (1902), The Elephant’s Child.
The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces.
- The Eye of Allah
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And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886), The Betrothed, Stanza 25.
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The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces.