“Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood.”
Anne Bishop (1955) American fiction writer
“Poison cures in certain contingencies, and in those cases poison is not an evil thing.”
Le venin guerit en quelque rencontre, et, ce cas-là, le venin n'est pas mauvais.
Aristippe, ou De la cour (1658), Discours VI.
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 139.
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