I need help with a sentence i do not understand

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Anatbs  #472960  Tue, 05 Feb 08 01:08 PM

Hello

I am analysing the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling.

there is a sentence almost at the end which says "If all men count with you, but none too much..."

what is the meaning of "count with"?

what does the sentence mean?

Thank you!

  
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Mister Micawber  #472962  Tue, 05 Feb 08 01:09 PM

Count with = be important to


  
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