"revenge is sweet" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, Act IV, scene ii, page 579:",
          "text": "[…]wee can force no anſwere from him, but (Ô reuenge, how ſweet art thou! I will ſtrangle him in this towell)[…]",
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          "ref": "1846, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], Lucretia: Or The Children of Night. […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "The ci-devant marquis was caught disguised in her apartment. She betrayed for him a good, easy friend of the people who had long loved her, and revenge is sweet.",
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          "ref": "1866, Charles Reade, Griffith Gaunt, or Jealousy, Boston: Ticknor and Fields:",
          "text": "All revenge is sweet; but what revenge so sweet to any man as that which came to his arms of its own accord? I do notice that men can't read men, but any woman can read a woman.",
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          "text": "With base deceit / You worked upon our feelings! / Revenge is sweet, / And flavours all our dealings!",
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        "Said when one is satisfied in taking revenge."
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          "word": "revenge is a dish best served cold"
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "said when one is satisfied in taking revenge",
          "word": "报仇雪恨，大快人心"
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          "sense": "said when one is satisfied in taking revenge",
          "word": "報仇雪恨，大快人心"
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          "sense": "said when one is satisfied in taking revenge",
          "word": "kosto on suloinen"
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          "sense": "said when one is satisfied in taking revenge",
          "word": "vengeance en représailles"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "said when one is satisfied in taking revenge",
          "word": "Rache ist süß"
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          "sense": "said when one is satisfied in taking revenge",
          "word": "zemsta jest słodka"
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          "sense": "said when one is satisfied in taking revenge",
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          "word": "zemsta jest rozkoszą bogów"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "said when one is satisfied in taking revenge",
      "word": "报仇雪恨，大快人心"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "said when one is satisfied in taking revenge",
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      "sense": "said when one is satisfied in taking revenge",
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      "sense": "said when one is satisfied in taking revenge",
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