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• It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Common, Duty

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, De Amicitia, XIX, 1922.

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• I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something in life has attracted criticism.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Criticism, Done, World

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• Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study; a constant process of honing. Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

  Stephen King

  Work, Cutting, Successful

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Good Humor, Cheerfulness

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.426, ShandonPress

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• [The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the salt solution of life. It cures the lethargies of flesh and spirit with the slap and shake of elemental force. It cradles and comforts. Give it trust and it holds you secure; fight it and it kills.

  Marya Mannes

  Ocean, Fighting, Self

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• Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food, and few things in the world are more wearying than a sarcastic attitude towards life.

  Agnes Repplier

  Positive, Sarcastic, Attitude

  Agnes Repplier (1893). “Essays in Idleness”, Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin

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• Salt is the only rock directly consumed by man. It corrodes but preserves, desiccates but is wrested from the water. ... It preserves things from corruption - even as it corrodes other things with its bite. A little of it fertilizes the land; a lot sterilizes it.

  Margaret Visser

  Men, Rocks, Land

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• A dressing is not a compote A dressing is not a custard It consists of pepper and salt, Vinegar, oil and mustard.

  Ogden Nash

  Food, Oil, Cooking

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• But when that smoking chowder came in, the mystery was delightfully explained. Oh! sweet friends, hearken to me. It was made of small juicy clams, scarcely bigger than hazel nuts, mixed with pounded ship biscuits and salted pork cut up into little flakes! the whole enriched with butter, and plentifully seasoned with pepper and salt... we dispatched it with great expedition.

  Herman Melville

  Sweet, Food, Cutting

  Herman Melville (2015). “MOBY-DICK (WITH NOTES)(BIOGRAPHY)(ILLUSTRATED): OR, THE WHALE”, p.100, Rastro Digital

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• Pork - no animal is more used for nourishment and none more indispensable in the kitchen; employed either fresh or salt, all is useful, even to its bristles and its blood; it is the superfluous riches of the farmer, and helps to pay the rent of the cottager.

  Alexis Soyer

  Food, Animal, Blood

  Alexis Soyer (1851). “The Modern Housewife: Or, Ménagère. Comprising Nearly One Thousand Receipts, for the Economic and Judicious Preparation of Every Meal of the Day, and Those for the Nursery and Sick Room; and Minute Directions for Family Management in All Its Branches. Illustrated with Engravings Including the Modern Housewife's Unique Kitchen, and Magic Stove”, p.198

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• Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him.

  George Herbert

  Friends

  "Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert". Book compiled by George Herbert et al., 1651.

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• We don't “crave” animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs, but we do crave fat, salt, flavor, texture, and familiarity.

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

  Animal, Eggs, Flavor

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• We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.

  Vance Havner

  Mind, Ministry, Earth

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• It formed into small drops on his weather beaten features, drops that rolled down his cheeks. Strangely, some of them tasted like salt.

  John Flanagan

  Weather, Beaten, Cheeks

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• Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America—burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Fall, Play, Phoenix

  Walter M. Miller Jr (2014). “A Canticle For Leibowitz”, p.146, Hachette UK

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• The good and the bad, the sugar and the salt, the kicks and the kisses—what’s come before and what will come after, you and me—

  Kami Garcia

  Kissing, Sugar, Kicks

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2012). “Beautiful Redemption”, p.330, Penguin UK

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• I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love You, Dark, Fire

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• It’s funny how the good things are all tied up with the bad. Sometimes it’s hard to tell which is which. But either way, you end up taking your sugar with your salt and your kicks with your kisses.

  Kami Garcia

  Kissing, Sugar, Way

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• ...We die, we turn, we are reborn as we deserve to be reborn, based on our doings in this world." Will looked down at his bitten nails. "I will probably be reborn as a slug that someone salts.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nails, Slugs, World

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? It would be equally reasonable to put in pepper or salt. Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter. If you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar; you could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water.

  George Orwell

  Drinking, Beer, Drunk

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “Smothered under journalism: 1946”

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• Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake. It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily. There was a dish of salt for everyone to dip their eggs into. ‘I don’t know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,’ said George.

  Enid Blyton

  Beautiful, Lakes, Clouds

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• Some people think that macrobiotic philosophy is no more than the teaching of a diet - the eating of brown rice, carrots, and gomashio (sesame salt), others imagine that it is summed up in the statement, "Don't eat cake and sugar." How far from the truth!

  George Ohsawa

  Philosophy, Teaching, Thinking

  "Essential Ohsawa: From Food to Health, Happiness to Freedom - Understanding the Basics of Macrobiotics". Book edited by Carl Ferré and Herman Aihara, p. 82, 1994.

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• When a Wall Street analyst or broker expresses optimism, investors must take it with a grain of salt.

  Seth Klarman

  Wall, Optimism, Grain Of Salt

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• The Bible says that Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world. On the job, in the grocery store, even among unsaved friends and family members, God's people are there to bring seasoning to an unsavory situation.

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Jobs, Light

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• ... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special temple ceremonies. Moreover, a great many distinguished women in history, including several Catholic saints, were also sealed to Joseph Smith in Utah. I saw these astonishing lists in the Latter-day Saint Genealogical Archives in Salt Lake City in 1944.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Utah, Cities, Two

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