“Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye”

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin 3

French lawyer, politician and writer 1755–1826

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“India is like a bride which has got two beautiful and lustrous eyes—Hindus and Mussulmans. If they quarrel against each other that beautiful bride will become ugly and if one destroys the other, she will lose one eye.”

Syed Ahmed Khan (1820–1898) Indian educator and politician

Writings and Speeches of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan https://www.google.com/books/edition/Writings_and_Speeches/ausHAAAAMAAJ?hl=en, Nachiketa Publications (1972), p. 160.
Variant: "India is a beautiful bride and Hindus and Muslims are her two eyes. If one of them is lost, this beautiful bride will become ugly." Quoted in Shirali, Aresh (10 August 2017). "The Enigma of Aligarh" https://openthemagazine.com/freedom-issue-2017/freedom-issue-2017-dispatches-from-history/the-enigma-of-aligarh/. Open Magazine.