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| Argument | Whatever Sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore. |
| Argument | He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse. He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a Lord may be an owl, A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice, And rooks, Committee-men or Trustees. |
| Argument | I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers. |
| Authority | Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain. |
| Authority | He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it. |
| Authority | Authority is never without hate. |
| Authorship | And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write. |
| Beds | Like feather-bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball. |
| Cheerfulness | Cheered up himself with ends of verse And sayings of philosophers. |
| Conscience | Why should not Conscience have vacation As well as other Courts o' th' nation? Have equal power to adjourn, Appoint appearance and return? |
| Criticism | He was in Logic, a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic; He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. |
| Deeds | For now the field is not far off Where we must give the world a proof Of deeds, not words. |
| Devil | And bid the devil take the hin'most. |
| Devil | Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick . |
| Dissension | Have always been at daggers-drawing, And one another clapper-clawing. |
| Doctrine | What makes all doctrines plain and clear?-- About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was prov'd true before Prove false again? Two hundred more. |
| Failure | He that is down can fall no lower. |
| Failure | Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills. |
| Failure | I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. |
| Fashion | And as the French we conquer'd once, Now give us laws for pantaloons, The length of breeches and the gathers Port-cannons, periwigs, and feathers. |
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