“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;!”

—  Rudyard Kipling

Source: If: A Father's Advice to His Son

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English short-story writer, poet, and novelist 1865–1936

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