Quote by Samuel Butler
Then spare the rod and spoil the child. - Samuel Butler

Then spare the rod and spoil the child. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. – Samuel Butler

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Faith
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. – Samuel Butler

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Punishment
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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven. – Henry Fielding

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Punishment

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace. – Pierre Corneille

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Punishment

Prisons dont rehabilitate, they dont punish, they dont protect, so what the hell do they do? – Jerry Brown

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Punishment

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Punishment

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Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope. – Lord Reading, on speechmaking

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Speeches

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward. – Andrea Thompson

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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. – G.K. Chesterton

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Risk

We have the ability to survive anything except ourselves. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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