If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at …

George Bernard Shaw
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If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven. ✨ Man and Superman Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
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If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven. ✨ Man and Superman Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

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