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" And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south, With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth. Four things greater than all things are, — Women and Horses and Power and War. "
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of how the Wildest Man in ...
by George Crile - 2003 - 550 pages
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The Living Age, Volume 320

1924 - 680 pages
...into slices is then brought in and partaken of without ceremony. Conversation now becomes general. Four things greater than all things are women and horses and power and war. We talk of them all, but to the Arab farmer one thing is greater still, the price of wheat, and when...
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The Forum, Volume 19

Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach - History - 1895 - 818 pages
...amelt a smell of cows in the lighthouse pasture below. " Two characters in one of his ballads talk of " Four things greater than all things are : Women, and Horses, and Power, and War. " Here you have pretty well Mr. Kipling's own tastes and the larger categories into which his work...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 61

English periodicals - 1890 - 540 pages
...peace, And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south, With the sliding puffs from the hookah mouth. Four things greater than all things are, — Women and horses and power and war. We spake of them all, but the last the most, For I sought a word of a Russian post, Of a shifty promise,...
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Barrack-room Ballads and Other Verses

Rudyard Kipling - English poetry - 1892 - 286 pages
...peace, And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south, With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth. Four things greater than all things are,— Women and Horses and Power and War. We spake of them all, but the last the most, For I sought a word of a Russian post, Of a shifty promise,...
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Ballads and Barrack-room Ballads

Rudyard Kipling - English poetry - 1893 - 246 pages
...peace, And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south, With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth. Four things greater than all things are, — Women and Horses and Power and War. We spake of them all, but the last the most, For I sought a word of a Russian post,• Of a shifty...
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Verses, 1889-1896

Rudyard Kipling - 1897 - 416 pages
...peace, And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south, With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth. Four things greater than all things are, — Women and Horses and Power and War. We spake of them all, but the last the most, For I sought a word of a Russian post, Of a shifty promise,...
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Verses, 1889-1896

Rudyard Kipling - 1897 - 404 pages
...peace, And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south, With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth. Four things greater than all things are, — Women and Horses and Power and War. We spake of them all, but the last the most. For I sought a word of a Russian post, Of a shifty promise,...
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The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling, Volume 11

Rudyard Kipling - English literature - 1898 - 400 pages
...peace, And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south, With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth. Four things greater than all things are, — Women and Horses and Power and War. We spake of them all, but the last the most, For I sought a word of a Russian post, Of a shifty promise,...
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The Works of Rudyard Kipling ...

Rudyard Kipling - 1899 - 412 pages
...peace, And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south, With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth. Four things greater than all things are, — Women and Horses and Power and War. We spake of them all, but the last the most, For I sought a word of a Russian post, Of a shifty promise,...
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Poems, Ballads, and Other Verses ...

Rudyard Kipling - 1899 - 352 pages
...peace, And the talk slid north, and the talk slid south, With the sliding puffs from the hookah-mouth. Four things greater than all things are, — Women and Horses and Power and War. We spake of them all, but the last the most, For I sought a word of a Russian post, Of a shifty promise,...
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