Quotes · Quote card
Quotation from Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
“I can handle men, of course, and I'm no fool along my own lines, but--but--I can't compete with the man who has been taught”
Captains Courageous, Chapter X (1897 text)
The self-made father tells his son what he lacked and why he wants Harvey to go to college.
Citation: "I can handle men, of course, and I'm no fool along my own lines, but--but--I can't compete with the man who has been taught" — Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous, Chapter X (1897 text). (id captains-courageous-q5)
Portrait: Rudyard Kipling - Captains Courageous, first US Edition (1897), Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936), Public domain.
