Quote#Pride
‘There is none like to me!' says the Cub in the pride of his earliest…
Quote byRudyard Kipling · 1865–1936
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Jungle Book (1894), Kaa's hunting..
English (original)
‘There is none like to me!' says the Cub in the pride of his earliest kill; But the jungle is large and the Cub he is small. Let him think and be still.
— Rudyard Kipling
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