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«Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error»
Author: Andrew Jackson
(President)
| Keywords:
acknowledge, instantly, reservation, Reservations, salt, slightly, stick, stick up, stuck-up
«[He] is salt rubbed in the wounds of the nation's conscience. He is a scream of pain. He is an accusing finger thrust in the face of white America. He is a fierce, brilliant light illuminating the unspeakable and the shameful.»
Author: Fern Marja Eckman
| Keywords:
accusing, brilliant, fierce, finger, illuminating, rubbed, salt, scream, shameful, The Nation, thrust, unspeakable
«A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.»
Author: Helen Rowland
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
grain, Grain of salt, puts, salt, salted, says, She, sugar, sugared, takes, The Sugar, to a man
«Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it. --»
Author: John Christian Bovee
| Keywords:
discretion, fancy, preserves, salt, sugar, sweetened, sweetens, The Sugar
«Give neither counsel nor salt till you are asked for it»
«Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.»
«Give up salt, give up sugar, give up spices, give up vegetables, give up chutnies, give up tamarind. Serve Bhangis, serve rogues, serve inferiors, remove faecal matter. Do not revenge, resist not evil, return good for evil, bear insult and injury. Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.»
Author: Swami Sivananda
(Founder, Monk, Physician)
| Keywords:
faecal, faecal matter, kindles, rogues, salt, spices, sugar, tamarind, tamarinds, vegetable matter
«A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in w»
«Almost any man worthy of his salt would fight to defend his home, but no one ever heard of a man going to war for his boarding house»
«A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.»
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