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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

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing. – Samuel Butler

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Humor
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Samuel Butler
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. – Samuel Butler

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Truth
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Punishment
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Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. – Ellen Key

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Punishment

Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. – Woody Allen

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Punishment

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty. – John Bunyan

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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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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. – Winston Churchill

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Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much. – Oscar Wilde

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How full of trifles everything is! It is only ones thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. – Wallace Stevens

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It takes two flints to make a fire. – Louisa May Alcott

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