deadly poison
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Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.
Silence is a deadly poison when you have no words.
Be honey to those who seek your friendship, but deadly poison to those who dare attack you.
We dare not do all that our opponents do. We dare not sacrifice everything for advantages. For what is an advantage to our opponents is deadly poison to us. The nobility say of themselves, noblesse oblige; so we may say, socialisme oblige, socialism imposes its obligations.