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There is a very simple rule / That every one should know; / You may not hear of it in school, / But everywhere you go, / In every land where people dwell, / And men are good and true, / You'll find they understand it well, / And so I'll tell it you:
To every one who gives me food, / Or shares his home with me, / I owe a debt of gratitude, / And I must loyal be.
I may not laugh at him, or say / Of him a word unkind; / His friendliness I must repay, / And to his faults be blind!