rough treatment
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.
As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.