“4238. Spare the Rod, and spoil the Child.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Love is a boy by poets styl'd;
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.”
Canto I, line 843
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)
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