Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Cyanides are old poisons, with a uniquely long, dark history, probably because they grow so bountifully around us.
Via History News Network:
Good quote. I used it for the title of my new mystery novel, The Surest Poison, just published by Night Shadows Press. The story involves the dumping of a massive amount of trichloroethylene behind a small plant west of Nashville. The time factor comes in since the pollution took place years ago but is just now showing up through health problems in the area.