No, no, go not to Lethe, neither twist / Wolf 's-bane, tight-rooted, for its poisonous wine.
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Morality, thou ly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!
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CHRIS The bane and blessing of human nature. That old cat killer, curiosity. Something so deeply embedded in our psyches that it screams to us from ancient myths of Pandora. Eve. Lot's wife. JOEL Eve lost paradise, Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt. Knowledge doesn't come cheap my friend. CHRIS Good or bad, curiosity is woven into our DNA like tonsils or like the opposable thumb. It's the fire under the ass of the human experience
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Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes what'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame, A mechanized automaton.
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Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.
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Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
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Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
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