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Poison Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
- The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.
- The surest poison is time.
- Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
- Thou art to me a delicious poison.
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