“If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch”
Stanza 4.
The Second Jungle Book (1895), If— (1896)
Context: If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!
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[paraphrasing the view of Seneca], p. 34.
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"Introduction"
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Senator Barack Obama quoted those words in a New Hampshire campaign speech on , saying "Senator McCain's campaign actually said, and I quote, <span style="color:gray">'If we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose.'</span>"
[2011-11-22, Mitt Romney ad charges Obama said, 'If we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose', Politifact, http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/nov/22/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-says-obama-said-if-we-keep-talking-abo/, 2012-10-08]
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