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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

2246 Beaumont and Flether John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:2246
AUTHOR:Beaumont and Fletcher
QUOTATION:What ’s one man’s poison, signor,
Is another’s meat or drink. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Love’s Cure. Act iii. Sc. 2.
 
Note 1.
Quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum (What is food to one may be fierce poison to others).—Lucretius: iv. 637. [back]