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> 2004fly2004 (2004fly2004) писал(а) в ответ на сообщение:
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> Вы очень вежливы, Флай. Я промолчу - т к от такой дремучести просто как то даже не по себе. Киплинг - мой любимый поэт.
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> Кстати - мое любимая poem by Kipling of all times - я еще со школы помню наизуть - когда мне трудно - я его вспоминаю.
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> 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 too;
> 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:
> If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
> If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
> If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
> And treat those two impostors just the same;
> If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
> Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
> Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
> And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
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> If you can make one heap of all your winnings
> And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
> And lose, and start again at your beginnings
> And never breathe a word about your loss;
> If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
> To serve your turn long after they are gone,
> And so hold on when there is nothing in you
> Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
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> 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
