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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Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
The Power of the Dog, Stanza 1 (1909).
Quote and source from Wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0
The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces.