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This is what you'll have to manage.

Now, obviously, Richard Kipling was writing if to his son.

It's one of the most beautiful messages a parent has ever put down for a child.

But it's also clear that as much as if was written to 12-year-old Jack, the opening stanza is a message to parents just as much.

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 to,

if you can wait and

not be tired by waiting or being lied about don't deal in lies or being hated, don't give way to

hating, and yet don't look too good nor talk too wise. Because isn't this exactly what

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