Quote#Work
You may talk o' gin and beer
Quote byRudyard Kipling · 1865–1936
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Barrack-Room Ballads (1892, 1896), Gunga Din, Stanza 1..
English (original)
You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.
— Rudyard Kipling
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