Jimmy Buffett
Musician, Author
"Wasting away again in Margaritaville, searching for my lost shaker of salt."
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Rosalind Franklin
Chemist, X-ray Crystallographer
"We wish to discuss a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. D.N.A. This structure has novel features which are of considerable biologic interest."
Kami Garcia
Author
"You end up taking your sugar with your salt and your kicks with your kisses."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politician, Philosopher, Orator
"Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him."
Theodore Parker
Transcendentalist, Minister
"Disappointment is often the salt of life."
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"Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself."
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"People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together."
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"If whisky or salt won't cure it, then to hell with it. I worry about important things."
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"None of Your Business.' It's the only Salt-N-Pepa song that I regret."
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"We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit."
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"Earnestness is the salt of eloquence."
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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."
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"Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him."
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"Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs."
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"Sleeping as quiet as death, side by wrinkled side, toothless, salt and brown, like two old kippers in a box."
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"I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain."
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"What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life."
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"To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible."
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"Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt."
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"But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the life in those which already existed."
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"Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience."
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"Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it."
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"If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter."
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"A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet."
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"Any actor worth his salt has a responsibility to reinvent himself from part to part."
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