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I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

W. H. Auden
Learning, Israel, Evil
"September 1, 1939" l. 19 (1939)
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.