1. "For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack."
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Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
2. "Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice."
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Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
3. "Thou art of the Jungle and not of the Jungle. And I am only a black panther. But I love thee, Little Brother."
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Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
4. "So Mowgli went away and hunted with the four cubs in the jungle from that day on. But he was not always alone, because years afterward he became a man and married. But that is a story for grown-ups."
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Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
5. "And it is I, Raksha [The Demon], who answers. The man’s cub is mine, Lungri–mine to me! He shall not be killed. He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs–frog-eater– fish-killer–he shall hunt thee!"
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Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
6. "The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things,"
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Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
7. "These two things fight together in me as the snakes fight in the spring. The water comes out of my eyes; yet I laugh while it falls. Why?"
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Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
8. "If a man can hear the truth he's spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools.........."
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Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
9. "It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose."
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Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book
10. "I am more likely to give help than to ask it"—Bagheera stretched out one paw and admired the steel-blue, ripping-chisel talons at the end of it—"still I should like to know."
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Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book