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In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true
From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?

Herbs

Mammon, n.: The god of the world's leading religion.

Money

Employment, sir, and hardships, prevent melancholy.

Melancholy

It starts with campaign finance reform.

Finance

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

Friendship

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

Health

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Experience

I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Communication Humor Psychology

To realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Wisdom

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

Education

It's dangerous to have fashion and power.

Danger

'Twas a light that made
Darkness itself appear
A thing of comfort.

Light

Like Dian's kiss, unask'd, unsought,
Love gives itself, but is not bought.

Love

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.

Nature

For the maintenance of peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon-shots.

Trifles

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

Education

For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.

Death

I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids' show.

Intelligence

Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

Information

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden.
It ends with Revelations.

Life