“No one is beat till he quits,
No one is through till he stops,
No matter how hard Failure hits,
No matter how often he drops,
A fellow's not down till he lies
In the dust and refuses to rise.”

—  Edgar Guest

Defeat, stanza 1, p. 112.
A Heap o' Livin' (1916)

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