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usonian

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1. I remember that. Based on a true story, and Kevin Kline is AWESOME.
Tue Sep 23, 2025, 08:56 PM
Sep 23

Crazy like "Divorce Italian Style"

And lover of fine literature,
even if I am not an Inglish majer!

Terence, This is Stupid Stuff
Alfred Edward Housman


yadda yadda ...

There was a king reigned in the East:
There, when kings will sit to feast,
They get their fill before they think
With poisoned meat and poisoned drink.
He gathered all the springs to birth
From the many-venomed earth;
First a little, thence to more,
He sampled all her killing store;
And easy, smiling, seasoned sound,
Sate the king when healths went round.
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:
They shook, they stared as white's their shirt:
Them it was their poison hurt.
--I tell the tale that I heard told.
Mithridates, he died old.


And

“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”
Attributed to the Buddha.

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