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“All men possess in their bodies a poison which acts upon serpents; and the human saliva, it is said, makes them take to flight, as though they had been touched with boiling water. The same substance, it is said, destroys them the moment it enters their throat.”
Provenance
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 953b146d926ad9021d34abf05153bc5b9b225246f37c3216dca3fa5ec68914fc
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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