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The self same thing they will abhor One way, and long another for.

He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice, As if Divinity had catch'd The itch, on purpose to be scratched.

For as our modern wits behold, Mounted a pick back on the old, Much farther off, much further he, Rais'd on his aged Beast, could see.

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.

And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar Of the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days, On the whole do you think he would have much to spare If he married a woman with nothing to wear?"

Dresses for breakfasts, and dinners, and balls. Dresses to sit in, and stand in, and walk in; Dresses to dance in, and flirt in, and talk in, Dresses in which to do nothing at all; Dresses for Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall; All of them different in color and shape. Silk, muslin, and lace, velvet, satin, and crape, Brocade and broadcloth, and other material, Quite as expensive and much more ethereal.

Where entity and quiddity, The ghosts of defunct bodies, fly.

Whatever Sceptic could inquire for, For every why he had a wherefore.

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.

I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers.

Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain.

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 is never without hate.

And force them, though it was in spite Of Nature and their stars, to write.

Like feather-bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball.

The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Cheered up himself with ends of verse And sayings of philosophers.

Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883 The New Jerusalem, when it comes, will probably be found so far to resemble the old as to stone its prophets freely.

Why should not Conscience have vacation As well as other Courts o' th' nation? Have equal power to adjourn, Appoint appearance and return?