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Self-Control

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; … If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same … Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it. —RUDYARD KIPLING, “If—”

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