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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As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!
The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces.