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Ut quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum.
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What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.
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Book IV, line 637; comparable to: "What's one man's poison, signor, / Is another's meat or drink", Beaumont and Fletcher, Love's Cure (c. 1612–13; revised c. 1625; printed 1647), Act iii, Scene 2.

 
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