Love And Prussic Hour

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“Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, and strychnine are weak dilutions; the surest poison is love.” Love can be defined in many ways, but poison is a new one. Love is just as dangerous as coffee, prussic acid, and strychnine because they all have as extreme outcomes as love can have. Love and prussic acid are very different. They can be alike with the possible outcomes of an intense feeling. Prussic acid can cause death in less than a minute. Love can be the death of someone, also. If they are deeply in love they will do anything to save their loved one. Strychnine can cause death through asphyxia. This means people are basically suffocating. Love can be suffocating because if there is too much one person can not handle all of it. It will cause extra stress that is not needed. In history, Pocahontas and John Smith’s relationship is a forbidden one. When Smith was taken to the official residence of Powhattan he was …show more content…
Coffee and love are alike in many ways. Coffee can give a person a caffeine-high, but taken away it can cause cause caffeine withdrawal. When love is taken away without warning it can cause withdrawal, also. The person will not know what to do with their day, and will not want to do anything at all.
Nonetheless, love includes valuable aspects. It can be worthwhile and hard to find at times. Even if it can be suffocating when someone is away or makes an individual willing to do anything for their loved. Love is there for a reason, and that reason is somebody can try hard with their life and not achieve anything until they find something with the warmth they need to continue on with. The outcome of love can be good, but it can also be poison to some. George R.R. Martin stated “Love is a poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.” He meant that even love can damage and be unpleasant thing at times. Thus love is the surest poison of them

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