| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Assertion |
| | | It is an impudent kind of sorcery to attempt to blind us with the smoke without convincing us that the fire has existed. Junius. | 1 |
| Assertion, unsupported by fact, is nugatory; surmise and general abuse, in however elegant language, ought not to pass for proofs. Junius. | 2 | | |
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