"Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills."
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"The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life."
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"For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist."
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"A sneer is the weapon of the weak. Like other devil's weapons, it is always cunningly ready to our hand, and there is more poison in the handle than in the point."
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"His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body."
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"The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather that it tastes bad."
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""State," I call it, where they all drink poison, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all lose themselves, the good and the wicked; "state," where they all call their slow suicide-"life.""
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"It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not."
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"I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison."
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"It started when I woke up, all I wanted to do is jump out of the window. I didn't want to eat anymore, because I was afraid that I might poison myself somehow."
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"... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)"
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"When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done"
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"Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist."
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"The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up."
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"Malice sucks up the greatest part of its own venom, and poisons itself."
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"There is nothing which so poisons princes as flattery, nor anything whereby wicked men more easily obtain credit and favor with them."
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"Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there."
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