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“Heracles! what alarming power in a kiss!” cried Xenophon.“What? Does that surprise you?” continued Socrates. “Don't you know that the scorpion, though smaller than a farthing, if it but fasten on the tongue, inflicts excruciating and maddening pain?”“Yes, to be sure; for the scorpion injects something by its bite.”
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