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Life is a school, and all that tread the earth / Are pupils in it. Its lessons all should learn, / And few there be who escape them -- and they are fools.
At birth this school begins, at death it ends, / And many terms there be, -- and faithful teachers / Not a few. Necessity is one; / For e'en the babe when first it feels the cool / And earthly air, and sees the light of day, / Shrinks from their touch, and cries aloud -- herewith / It doth begin to learn the alphabet / Of life. Then hunger comes; and so to ease / Itself the babe doth learn to love the things / That give it life. Thus hour by hour, and day / By day it gathers knowledge at the school / But knows it not -- even as wiser men, / Of knowledge full, know scarcely what they do.