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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Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!
The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces.