Quotes from The Second Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling ·  142 pages

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“You may kill for yourselves, and your mates,
and your cubs as they need, and you can;
But kill not for pleasure of killing, and
SEVEN TIMES NEVER KILL MAN.”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Second Jungle Book


“ye kill before midnight, be silent, and wake not the woods with”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Second Jungle Book


“What is has been. What will be is no more than a forgotten year striking backward.”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Second Jungle Book


“This talk went in at one ear and out at the other, for a boy who spends his life eating and sleeping does not worry about anything till it actually stares him in the face. But, one year, Baloo's words came true, and Mowgli saw all the Jungle working under the Law.”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Second Jungle Book


“Now these are the Laws of the Jungle, and many and mighty are they; But the head and the hoof of the Law and the haunch and the hump is—Obey!”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Second Jungle Book



“Now these are the Laws of the Jungle, and many and mighty are they; But the head and the hoof of the Law and the haunch and the hump is—Obey”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Second Jungle Book


About the author

Rudyard Kipling
Born place: in Bombay, India
Born date December 30, 1865
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