On this day, the eve of Father's Day, I'd like to post the poem ''IF''' by Rudyard Kipling that I find appropriate ...

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2. Speaker O'Neill was fond of the last stanza and often quoted it in remarks.

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
- With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
- And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!