The famous poetic line “Then spare the rod and spoil the child”, which became the popular English…
The line occurs in Samuel Butler's Hudibras. It appears in a comic discussion of lovers and whipping rather than as a straightforward lesson in child-rearing.
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The famous poetic line “Then spare the rod and spoil the child”, which became the popular English phrase “Spare the rod and spoil the child”, is taken from which poem?
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The line occurs in Samuel Butler's Hudibras. It appears in a comic discussion of lovers and whipping rather than as a straightforward lesson in child-rearing.
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Himachal Pradesh SET (HP SET)