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TEN COMMANDMENTS

It is right:

I. LOVE

To love everybody a little and some people a great deal.

II. FAITH

To trust the God who made us is good and will not forget us.

III. OBEDIENCE

To obey those who have the right to hold themselves responsible for us.

IV. HOPE

To look on the bright side of things and keep a good heart up.

V. COURAGE

To dare do whatever we think we ought to do.

VI. CHEERFULNESS

To express our good, happy feelings, not the others.

VII. PRUDENCE

To use our intelligence to avoid trouble.
It is wrong:

VIII

To hate or hurt any one, except for a greater good; to be mean and selfish; to be unjust.

IX

To tell lies, except when people ask what they have no right to know.

X

To do anything dirty, or ugly, or intemperate.