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

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

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Samuel Butler (February 8 1612 – September 25 1680) was an English satirical poet.

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Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates;
The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain;
By this the fool commands the wise, The noble with the base complies,
The sot assumes the rule of wit, and cowards make the base submit.
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