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 from your beginnings
And never breathe a Word about your loss;
Rudyard Kipling: "If---"
From the same poem comes the couplet seen by every competitor entering Centre Court at Wimbledon:
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
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