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Generally, such men in all deliberations find ease to be of the negative side, and affect a credit to object and foretell difficulties; for when propositions are denied, there is an end of them; but if they be allowed, it requireth a new work; which false point of wisdom is the bane of business.

Women were ever the bane of Umslopogaas, my fostering.

Policy, the bane of artists demanded it, and so, for the sake of a thousand issues and a common front to the common foe, he placed the love of his life upon the altar of his patriotism, and went, a broken-hearted man, into the long exile.

But if guile with guile contend, Bane, not blessing, is the end.

in one city there must of necessity be two, and those contrary to each other; for he makes the military the guardians of the state, and the husbandman, artisans, and others, citizens; and all those quarrels, accusations, and things of the like sort, which he says are the bane of other cities, will be found in his also: notwithstanding Socrates says they will not want many laws in consequence of their education, but such only as may be necessary for regulating the streets, the markets, and the like, while at the same time it is the education of the military only that he has taken any care of.

my lord," answered she, "consider the country--the bane of all young women is the country.

TEIRESIAS Not Creon, thou thyself art thine own bane.

'It's all these cursed women!' muttered Grimsby: 'they're the very bane of the world!

But this long debt of confidence, due from me to him, whose bane and ruin I have been, shall at length be paid.

It is a singular instance of the capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head, there should still be found men who object to the new Constitution, for deviating from a principle which has been found the bane of the old, and which is in itself evidently incompatible with the idea of GOVERNMENT; a principle, in short, which, if it is to be executed at all, must substitute the violent and sanguinary agency of the sword to the mild influence of the magistracy.

"That 'yes' has been my bane and antidote," answered Tom, rallying for a new and still more desperate charge.

"I am your faithful slave and to you alone I can confess that my children are the bane of my life.