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Quotation from If— by Rudyard Kipling
“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!”
If—, Lines 29-32 (Rewards and Fairies (1910))
The last condition and the long-delayed main clause that completes the sentence.
Citation: "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!" — Rudyard Kipling, If—, Lines 29-32 (Rewards and Fairies (1910)). (id if-kipling-q6)
Portrait: Kipling If (Doubleday 1910), Rudyard Kipling, Public domain.
