"A family can be the bane of one's……" — Keri Hulme

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• Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men… — Joseph Hall
• Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning. — Michel de Montaigne
• [Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. — Arthur Conan Doyle
• It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on… — Alexander Hamilton
• Tedium is the bane of immortality. — Neil Lowe
• Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today. — Olusegun Obasanjo
• O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
• What is man's greatest bane? His brother man alone. — Bias of Priene
• Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. — Walter Savage Landor
• The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization — Franz Boas
• Legalized abortion is a national holocaust; an affront to our national character; a contradiction of established principles subscribed to from… — Chuck Baldwin
• World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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