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Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–1894). A Child’s Garden of Verses and Underwoods. 1913.

6. Whole Duty of Children

A CHILD should always say what’s true

And speak when he is spoken to,

And behave mannerly at table;

At least as far as he is able.