<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342739" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Authority</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Authority, authority!' they shout<br>Whose minds, not large enough to hold a doubt,<br>Some chance opinion ever entertain,<br>By dogma billeted upon their brain.<br>'Ha!' they exclaim with choreatic glee,<br>'Here's Dabster if you won't give in to me<br>Dabster, sir, Dabster, to whom all men look<br>With reverence!' The fellow wrote a book.<br>It matters not that many another wight<br>Has thought more deeply, could more wisely write<br>On t' other side-that you yourself possess<br>Knowledge where Dabster did but faintly guess.<br>God help you if ambitious to persuade<br>The fools who take opinion ready-made<br>And 'recognize authorities.' Be sure<br>No tittle of their folly they'll abjure<br>For all that you can say. But write it down,<br>Publish and die and get a great renown<br>Faith! how they'll snap it up, misread, misquote,<br>Swear that they had a hand in all you wrote,<br>And ride your fame like monkeys on a goat!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ambrose+Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342739" data-title="Authority de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="'Authority, authority!' they shout Whose minds, not large enough to hold a doubt, Some chance opinion ever entertain, By dogma billeted upon their brain. 'Ha!' they exclaim with choreatic glee, 'Here's Dabster if you won't give in to me Dabster, s..."></div> </div> </div>

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