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Samuel Butler Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children
  • Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.

    Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?

    Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.43, The Floating Press
  • Spare the rod and spoil the child.

    'Hudibras' pt. 2 (1664), canto 1, l. 843

Samuel Butler

  • Born: February 8, 1612
  • Died: September 25, 1680
  • Occupation: Poet
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