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Quotation from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

“But uglier yet is the hump we get From having too little to do.”

Rudyard Kipling (spoken by Poem after How the Camel Got His Hump)

Just So Stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, closing verses (Project Gutenberg #2781)

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The verses turn the Camel's hump into the bad temper of anyone, child or grown-up, with nothing to do.

Citation: "But uglier yet is the hump we get From having too little to do." — Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories, How the Camel Got His Hump, closing verses (Project Gutenberg #2781). (id just-so-stories-q5)

Virtues: Industry

Portrait: Just So Stories Kipling 1902, w:Rudyard Kipling, Public domain.

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