Explore "On the Strength of a Likeness" by Rudyard Kipling on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
If your mirror be broken, look into still water; but have a care that you do not fall in. / Hindu Proverb.
Next to a requited attachment, one of the most convenient things that a / young man can carry about with him at the beginning of his career, is / an unrequited attachment. It makes him feel important and business-like, / and blase, and cynical; and whenever he has a touch of liver, or suffers / from want of exercise, he can mourn over his lost love, and be very / happy in a tender, twilight fashion.