"Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words."
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"Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it."
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"Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison."
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"Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it."
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"A dream has power to poison sleep."
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"Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin."
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"The fire you rubbed left its brand on the most vulnerable, most vicious and tender point of my body. Now I have to pay for your rasping the red rash too strongly, too soon, as charred wood has to pay for burning. When I remain without your caresses, I lose all control of my nerves, nothing exists any more than the ecstasy of friction, the abiding effect of your sting, of your delicious poison."
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"Deadly poisons are concealed under sweet honey."
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"All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy."
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"If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later."
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"Evil unchecked grows, evil tolerated poisons the whole system."
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"The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system."
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"Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea."
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"Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it"
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"one pain is cured by another. catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die."
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"The surest poison is time."
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"Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you."
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"Every impulse we strangle will only poison us."
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"When a writer develops a story, he is confronted with a poison that is inside him. If you don't have that poison, your story will be boring and uninspired. It's like fugu: The flesh of the pufferfish is extremely tasty, but the roe, the liver, the heart can be lethally toxic."
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"I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares."
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