“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you”
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Kipling wrote the poem for his friend John Stanley, an assistant master at Harrow, and it has been recited at school assemblies ever since. The first condition is the hardest one: holding your own judgement steady while everyone around you loses theirs and starts pointing.
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