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• Money: The only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen "Hey You!
  -- Wilson Mizne...
• By the apostle Paul, shadows to-night Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Richard III -- Act v, Sc. 3...
• Never offend with style when you can offend with substance.
• Dr. Zoidberg: "Help! A guinea pig tricked me.
• Friction can be a drag sometimes.
• Today I accidentally stepped on a snail on the sidewalk in front of our house.
  And I thought, I too am like that snail. I build a defensive wall around myself, a "shell" if you will....
• What lives on its own substance and dies when it devours itself? [A candle]
• Nothing can cover his high fame but heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal substance of his greatness,-- To which I leave him.
  -- Beaumont and Fletcher -- The False One, Act ii, Sc. 1...
• All these poems where it is merely the Poem that is in question - a whole poetry with no other substance than itself!
  What would we say of a prayer whose object was religion? -- E.M. Ciora...