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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 youBut make allowance for their doubting too,If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied about, dont deal in lies,Or being hated, dont give way to hating,And yet dont 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 aimIf you can meet with Triumph and DisasterAnd treat those two impostors just the sameIf you can bear to hear the truth youve spokenTwisted 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

If you can make one heap of all your winningsAnd risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginningsAnd never breath a word about your lossIf you can force your heart and nerve and sinewTo serve your turn long after they are gone,And so hold on when there is nothing in youExcept the Will which says to them Hold on!

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 youIf all men count with you, but none too much,If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything thats in it,And--which is more--youll be a Man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling

I have a household that includes two wonderful submissive girls.

In a world full of frauds, it is worth waiting for the genuine article. Authentic is still available or at least I hope it is. My interest runs the spectrum so ask if you want to know.