English poem
Epigrams, CCXXXIX (There are but ten Commandments, true)
by Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
There are but ten Commandments, true, But that’s no hardship, friend, to you; The sins whereof no line is writ You’re not commanded to commit.
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