"Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous"
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"I have better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol. To put alcohol in the human brain is like putting sand in the bearings of an engine."
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"I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty."
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"I hate feminism. It is poison."
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"Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasureits hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever."
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"An angry person is always full of poison."
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"Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times."
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"She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire."
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"Live or die but don't poison everything."
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"Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same."
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"History is a needle for putting men asleep anointed with the poison Of all they want to keep."
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"To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness."
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"Periodic fasts are necessary to flush out the poisons."
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"When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity."
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"Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed."
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"A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself."
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"The future was with Fate. The present was our own."
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"The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil."
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"A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death."
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"Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction."
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