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S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880.

Scolding

If words are sometimes to be used, they ought to be grave, kind, and sober, representing the ill or unbecomingness of the faults, rather than a hasty rating of the child for it.

Passionate chiding carries rough language with it, and the names that parents and preceptors give children, they will not be ashamed to bestow on others.