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What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.

Ut quod ali cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum.

Original text (Latin)

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Compare: "What's one man's poison, signor, Is another's meat or drink", Beaumont and Fletcher, Love's Cure (1647), Act III, scene 2

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