And is it True? It is not True. <br />And if it were it wouldn’t do, <br />For people such as me and you <br />Who pretty nearly all day long <br />Are doing something rather wrong. <br />Because if things were really so, <br />You would have perished long ago, <br />And I would not have lived to write <br />The noble lines that meet your sight, <br />Nor B.T.B survived to draw <br />The nicest things you ever saw.<br /><br />Hilaire Belloc<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/cautionary-tales-for-children-introduction/
