Persuasion Comes Not Easily

A dressing-down's full of hauteur 
    Persuasion comes not easily
  
  Instead of rebuke, employ kinder reproof
    a velvet hammer, wield congenially
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Rodrigues Avatar
July 17, 2023 at 3:27 AM
Well said!
Hawkins Avatar
July 16, 2023 at 11:17 PM
An iron fist in a velvet glove?
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