326 Quotes About Poison

  • Author M.J. Carter
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    For decades, chalk and alum have been added to bread, and burnt corn and peas ground up to make coffee. Vinegar is rendered sharper by the addition of sulphuric acid, arrowroot is added to milk to thicken it, mustard is eked out with flour, strychnine is added to beer for bitterness and green vitriol to encourage a foaming head. And these are but the harmless manipulations.

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  • Author Laurent Binet
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    Eco listens with interest to the story of a lost manuscript for which people are being killed. He sees a man walk past holding a bouquet of roses. His mind wanders for a second, and a vision of a poisoned monk flashes through it.

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  • Author Giorgos Seferis
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    ¿Qué iban a hacer los desdichados, peleando y bebiendo día y noche sangre emponzoñada de serpientes? Siglos de veneno: generaciones de veneno”.

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