| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 4783 |
| QUOTATION: | I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (19071973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. September 1, 1939 (l. 1922). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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