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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342801" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Foundations Of The State</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Observe, dear Lord, what lively pranks<br>Are played by sentimental cranks!<br>First this one mounts his hinder hoofs<br>And brays the chimneys off the roofs;<br>Then that one, with exalted voice,<br>Expounds the thesis of his choice,<br>Our understandings to bombard,<br>Till all the window panes are starred!<br>A third augments the vocal shock<br>Till steeples to their bases rock,<br>Confessing, as they humbly nod,<br>They hear and mark the will of God.<br>A fourth in oral thunder vents<br>His awful penury of sense<br>Till dogs with sympathetic howls,<br>And lowing cows, and cackling fowls,<br>Hens, geese, and all domestic birds,<br>Attest the wisdom of his words.<br>Cranks thus their intellects deflate<br>Of theories about the State.<br>This one avers 'tis built on Truth,<br>And that on Temperance. This youth<br>Declares that Science bears the pile;<br>That graybeard, with a holy smile,<br>Says Faith is the supporting stone;<br>While women swear that Love alone<br>Could so unflinchingly endure<br>The heavy load. And some are sure<br>The solemn vow of Christian Wedlock<br>Is the indubitable bedrock.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Physicians once about the bed<br>Of one whose life was nearly sped<br>Blew up a disputatious breeze<br>About the cause of his disease:<br>This, that and t' other thing they blamed.<br>'Tut, tut!' the dying man exclaimed,<br>'What made me ill I do not care;<br>You've not an ounce of it, I'll swear.<br>And if you had the skill to make it<br>I'd see you hanged before I'd take it!'</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>
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Are played by sentimental cranks!
First this one mounts his hinder hoofs
And brays the chimneys off the roofs;
Then that one, with exalted voice,
Expounds the thesis of his choice,
Our understandings to bomba..."></div>
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