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Triumph, disaster, and other imposters

Order Paper: National needs to set a commonsense, down to earth, practical counterpoint to the new government's often rather woolly idealism.

Wed, 25 Oct 2017

Poet Rudyard Kipling had some wise advice for winners and losers in any situation.

Greet those two imposters – Triumph and Disaster – the same way, and treat them with similar disdain, was the general tenor of his advice.

You could condense that a little further I suppose, to this: Don’t get

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