"Tout est poison, rien n'est poison, tout est une question de dose. Everything is poisonous, nothing is poisonous, it is all a matter of dose."
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"I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking."
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"Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else."
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"Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die."
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"If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!"
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"Many photographers are apt to confuse color with noise, and to congratulate themselves when they have almost blown you down with screeching hues alone-a bebop of electric blues, furious reds, and poison greens."
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"Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment."
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"The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life."
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"Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant"
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"Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature; and by that Providence which often places antidotes in the neighborhood of poisons, vice was checked by misery, lest it should swell to universal and unlimited dominion."
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"He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed."
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"Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison."
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"Even a little untruth destroys a man, as a drop of poison ruins milk."
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"If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood."
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"India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment."
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"As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in much poison."
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"The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue."
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"Love is a kind of possession. It’s a poison."
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"Life's not so bad after all. There are not only poison but also antidotes."
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"Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison."
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