It simply does not sound like Kipling to me. He may have said it, but it is not a good fit for him.
Bill Dillingham
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Dear Jane,
It is not a line that I recognise but, on going to Google Advanced Search, I find that it appears dozens of times with an attribution to Rudyard Kipling, both on websites providing quotations and on those using them.
However, I have found neither a case where reference is made to the text source of the quote nor an instance of it occurring within a piece of text, whereas a search for the phrase "He went down to the Cape", taken at random from the speech 'Some Aspects of Travel' from A Book of of Words - not one of Kipling's most popular works - comes up within the text with a correct attribution at number three in the Google list.
I therefore feel that it unlikely to be by Kipling and that many internet quotation sites may have been recycling an old error.
Roger Ayers
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From: Jane Keskar<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 4:04 PM
Subject: Kipling quote?
I wonder if anyone recognises this supposed Kipling quote from Mr Greg Foster:
"Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs."
With best wishes to all,
Jane Keskar
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