Read this excerpt from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling. Akela raised his old head wearily: – "Free People, and ye too, jackal
s of Shere Khan, for twelve seasons I have led ye to and from the kill, and in all that time not one has been trapped or maimed. Now I have missed my kill. Ye know how that plot was made. Ye know how ye brought me up to an untried buck to make my weakness known. It was cleverly done. Your right is to kill me here on the Council Rock now. Therefore I ask, 'Who comes to make an end of the Lone Wolf?' For it is my right, by the Law of the Jungle, that ye come one by one." Which line from "If" shares a similar theme? If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
