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Arsenic sticks around and today it's easily found after death if somebody thinks of looking for it, because the problem with arsenic, it isn't looked for in the common tests for drugs. -- Michael Baden
Berlin stimulates like arsenic. -- Harold Nicolson
Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses...unless you prefer to die. -- David Levithan
Don't be too quickTo break bad habits: better stick,Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic. -- Bret Harte
A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life. -- J. G. Holland
ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn. -- Ambrose Bierce
No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life. -- Esther Williams
Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored. -- Andrew Bernstein
They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up. -- A. E. Housman
Here. (Zarek) What is it? (Astrid) Arsenic and vomit. (Zarek) Really? And yet you managed to hack that up so quietly. Who knew? Thanks. I've never had vomit before. I'm sure it's extra special. (Astrid) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I pray my companion, if he wishes for bread, to ask me for bread, and if he wishes for sassafras or arsenic, to ask me for them, and not to hold out his plate, as if I knew already. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Voltaire remarked that it is possible to kill a flock of sheep by witchcraft if you give them plenty of arsenic at the same time. The sheep, in this figure, may well stand for the complacent apologists of capitalism; Marx's penetrating insight and bitter hatred of oppression supply the arsenic, while the labour theory of value provides the incantations. -- Joan Robinson
The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yes, she is." He looks at me, his face carved in pain. "She is dying, Sara. She will die, either tonight or tomorrow or maybe a year from now if we're really lucky. You heard what Dr. Chance said. Arsenic's not a cure. It just postpones what's coming." My eyes fill up with tears. "But I love her," I say, because that is reason enough. -- Jodi Picoult
Stress is not the spice of life any more than arsenic is. And without it, you won't feel bored. -- Andrew Bernstein
People do sometimes ask me some really idiotic questions: 'Is your husband afraid of you putting arsenic in his food?' I replied that I have never written a book about poison, ever. -- Ruth Rendell
We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic. -- Sue Kelly
That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available. -- Michael Baden
Because sugar is not arsenic, many graves are full. -- Idries Shah

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