If
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- a poem published in 1910 by Rudyard Kipling. It consists of a single long sentence beginning with the word ‘if’, giving advice to a boy on how to become a man. It is in the Victorian tradition and now seems rather old-fashioned, but the poem remains extremely popular and is often voted the favourite poem of British readers.
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