If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it onto something else,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
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you'll be a mouse old man
with apologies to Backyard Kippers (or someone with a name like that)
and to keep our Rick happy here's a url
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if---
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