Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
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What makes all doctrines plain and clear?
About two hundred pounds a year. ...
About two hundred pounds a year. ...
Neither have they hearts to stay,
Nor wit enough to run away.
Nor wit enough to run away.
He could foretell whats'ever was
By consequence to come to pass. ...
By consequence to come to pass. ...
A skilful leech is better far
Than half a hundred men of war.
Than half a hundred men of war.
When civil fury first grew high,
And men fell out, they knew not why; ...
And men fell out, they knew not why; ...
Love is a boy, by poets styled,
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
For he could coin, or counterfeit
New words, with little or no wit; ...
New words, with little or no wit; ...
For all a rhetorician's rules
Teach nothing but to name his tools.
Teach nothing but to name his tools.
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs. Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, b
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