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I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil… — W.H. Auden

Poem

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

W.H. Auden
1939
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Cycle of violenceEye for an eyeHuman nature
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Poem
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1939
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W.H. Auden
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Auden, W. H. "September 1, 1939." Another Time. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1940. Originally published in The New Republic, 18 Oct. 1939.

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