“If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss.”

—  Rudyard Kipling , book The Second Jungle Book

Stanza 3.
The Second Jungle Book (1895), If— (1896)

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