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Show "East" and "West" "Never the twain shall meet" is a phrase borrowed from the poem "The Ballad of East and West," by Rud-yard Rud-yard Kipling. The full significance of the expression can he gained only by reading the entire poem. Isolated from the text the lines are interpreted as meaning "that people of the eastern east-ern civilization, such as the Chinese and the Japanese, and those of the western civilization, such as the English Eng-lish and the American, cannot uliiliate upon a truly friendly basis." |