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5 quotes from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out.
— Kolokolo Bird (dialogue) · Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories (1902), "The Elephant's Child"
I keep six honest serving-men: / (They taught me all I knew) / Their names are What and Where and When / And How and Why and Who.
— Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories (1902), verses after "The Elephant's Child"
I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.
— The Cat (dialogue) · Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories (1902), "The Cat that Walked by Himself"
In the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes.
— Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories (1902), "How the Whale got his Throat"
Comes Tegumai alone to find / The daughter that was all to him.
— Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories (1902), "Merrow Down"

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