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Hier aupres de Charenton
Un serpent morait Jean Freron,
Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva?
Ce fut le serpent qui creva.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: imitation from the Greek, also found in Oeuvres Complets de Voltaire, III, p. 1002, 1817, printed as
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Un gros serpent mordit Aurele.
Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva?
Qu' Aurele en mourut? Bagatelle!
Ce fut le serpent qui creva.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: in a manuscript commonplace book, probably written at the end of the 18th century, see "Notes and Qu
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What's one man's poison, signior,
Is another's meat or drink.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: Love's Cure (act III, sc. 2)
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One man's strawberries are another man's hives.
Author: Donald G. Cooley
Source: Eat and Get Slim (p. 65)
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A deadly echidna once bit a Cappadocian; she herself died, having
tasted the Poison-flinging blood.
[Lat., Vipera Cappadocem nocitura mormordit; at illa Gustato
perit sanguine Cappadocis.]
Author: Demodocus
Source: translation of his Greek Epigram
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The man recover'd of the bite,
The dog it was that died.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog
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While Fell was reposing himself in the hay,
A reptile concealed bit his leg as he lay;
But, all venom himself, of the wound he made light,
And got well, while the scorpion died of the bite.
Author: Ephraim Gotthold Lessing
Source: Paraphrase of Demodocus
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All men carry about them that which is poyson to serpents: for
if it be true that is reported, they will no better abide the
touching with man's spittle than scalding water cast upon them:
but if it happed to light within their chawes or mouth,
especially if it come from a man that is fasting, it is present
death.
Author: Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus)
Source: Natural History (bk. VII, ch. II), (Holland's translation)
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To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human
kindness.
[Ger., In gahrend Drachengift hast du
Die Milch der frommen Denkart mir verwandelt.]
Author: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Source: Wilhelm Tell (IV, 3, 3)
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Poison is drunk out of gold.
[Lat., Venenum in auro bibitur.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Thyestes (III, 453)
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Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have
A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear
As will disperse itself through all the veins
That the life-weary taker may fall dead,
And that the trunk may be discharged of breath
As violently as hasty powder fired
Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at V, i)
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Talk no more of the lucky escape of the head
From a flint so unhappily thrown;
I think very different from thousands; indeed
'Twas a lucky escape for the stone.
Author: Dr. John Wolcot (Wolcott) (used pseudonym Peter Pindar)
Source: on a stone thrown at King George III
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