Rudyard Kipling

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• I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

  Just So Stories (1902), The Elephant’s Child.

• The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces.

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• Every woman knows all about everything.

  The Eye of Allah

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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