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Arsenic Quote by Bret Harte

“Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.” quote by Bret Harte — Download Open image

“Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.”

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For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

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“Nellie was a good girl, and I think had a sort of quiet respect for old Fagg's unobtrusiveness. But her fancy was already taken captive by Rattler's superficial qualities, which were obvious and pleasing. I don't think Nellie was any worse than you or I. We are more apt to take acquaintances at their apparent value than their intrinsic worth.…

Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not…

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Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters "T" and "H" joined together, which resembleth a "Y," do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced "Ye,"--the like of which I never heard in all England.

“Tommy, you're a good little man, but you can't gamble worth a cent. Don't try it over again.' He then handed him his money…

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“I've had some mighty mean moments afore I kem to this spot,-- Lost on the plains in '50, drowned almost, and shot; But out on this alkali desert, a hunting a crazy wife, Was ra'ly as on-satis-factory as anything in my life.”

But, when the goddess' work is done,The woman's still remains.

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The delicate thought, that cannot find expression, For ruder speech too fair, That, like thy petals, trembles in possession, And scatters on the air.

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“There was, I think, a prevailing impression common to the provincial mind, that his misfortune was the result of the defective moral quality of…

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Your voices break and falter in the darkness, Break, falter, and are still.

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Each lost day has its patron saint!

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We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

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You should try them, Nick. They’re delicious. No one makes cookies that taste like this.” – Kara ‘Probably because arsenic was a key ingredient.’ “Have to watch my girlish figure. ‘Cause if I don’t, no one will.” – Nick

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“As there are six kinds of metals, so I have also shown with reliable experiments... that there are also six kinds of half-metals: a…

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Voltaire remarked that it is possible to kill a flock of sheep by witchcraft if you give them plenty of arsenic at the same…

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A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

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Berlin stimulates like arsenic.

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Today, about 40 percent of America's carbon pollution comes from our power plants. There are no federal limits to the amount those plants can pump into the air. None. We limit the amount of toxic chemicals like mercury, and sulfur, and arsenic in our air and water, but power plants can dump as much carbon pollution into our atmosphere as…

Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses...unless you prefer to die.

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Here. (Zarek) What is it? (Astrid) Arsenic and vomit. (Zarek) Really? And yet you managed to hack that up so quietly. Who knew? Thanks.…

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I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask…

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They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him…

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“Salcombe Hardy groaned: "How long, O Lord, how long shall we have to listen to all this tripe about commercial arsenic? Murderers learn it…

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