1. "Lady Middleton resigned herself... Contenting herself with merely giving her husband a gentle reprimand on the subject, five or six times every day."
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Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
2. "Ammu watched over them fiercely. Her watchfulness stretched her, made her taut and tense. She was quick to reprimand her children, but even quicker to take offense on their behalf."
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Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
3. "Lady Middleton resigned herself to the idea of it with all the philosophy of a well-bred woman, contenting herself with merely giving her husband a gentle reprimand on the subject five or six times every day."
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Jane Austen, Jane Austen: The Complete Collection
4. "Life is too short to waste The critic bite or cynic bark, Quarrel, or reprimand; 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!"
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Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. "Life is too short to waste In critic peep or cynic bark, Quarrel or reprimand: 'Twill soon be dark; Up, heed thine own aim, and God speed the mark!"
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Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. "Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended to stand in place of ethics, denying all moral context."
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Steven Erikson, Midnight Tides
7. "Farang, I'll bet you Wall Street against a Thai mango he'll be back, if for no other reason than to play the card of virile youth against Hudson's superior rank and thus restore his ego after that humiliating reprimand."
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John Burdett, Bangkok Tattoo
8. "Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin."
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
9. "Look at her, he ordered. She’s foaming at the mouth. That’s bad, right? Don’t they shoot you when you do that? She’s blowing bubbles, Grace explained. At three months, we say it’s cute. We frown on it when a child turns six. At thirteen, a stem reprimand is in order. It’s only bubble-blowing adults we shoot."
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Day Leclaire, Who’s Holding the Baby?
10. "Instead of a reprimand for their previous negligence, the case seemed rather to require an eulogium on their praiseworthy caution after the mischief had happened; a grateful recognition of the promptitude of their zeal the moment that there was no longer any remedy."
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter