By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to

By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof. – Proverb

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Private reproof is the best grave for private faults. – Proverb

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some who will not speak against another, in the end does them harm. – Proverb

Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things. – Samuel Johnson

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