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Quotation from If— by Rudyard Kipling

“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;”

Rudyard Kipling (spoken by The speaker)

If—, Lines 11-12 (Rewards and Fairies (1910))

Portrait of Rudyard Kipling

Success and failure personified as deceivers, each to be met with the same steadiness; the lines inscribed at Wimbledon.

Citation: "If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same;" — Rudyard Kipling, If—, Lines 11-12 (Rewards and Fairies (1910)). (id if-kipling-q2)

Portrait: Kipling If (Doubleday 1910), Rudyard Kipling, Public domain.

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