Цитаты из книги автора Joseph Rudyard Kipling Kim

I stay here till all my horses are sold.

'And, overshooting all other marks, the arrow passed far and far beyond sight.

'I am not a dog or a snake to bite when I have learned to love.'

The lama's knowledge of medicine was, of course, sympathetic only. He believed that the dung of a black horse, mixed with sulphur, and carried in a snake-skin, was a sound remedy for cholera; but the symbolism interested him far more than the science.

Even today, tickets and ticket-clipping are dark oppression to Indian rustics. They do not understand why, when they have paid for a magic piece of paper, strangers should punch great pieces out of the charm.

'Thank the Gods of the Jains, brother,' he said, not knowing how those Gods were named. 'The fever is indeed broken.'

I have met him several times at Benares, and also at Buddh Gaya, to interrogate him on releegious points and devil-worship. He is pure agnostic—same as me

Kim dragged forth his compass, Survey paint-box, and the new-filled medicine-box. They had all accompanied his travels, and boylike he valued them immensely.

Come out, and next time thy heart is troubled, do not try white arsenic quite so openly.

Therefore I say in my heart the Faiths are like the horses. Each has merit in its own country