“If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same”

—  Rudyard Kipling , book The Second Jungle Book

Stanza 2.
The Second Jungle Book (1895), If— (1896)

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