“I know of a cure for everything: salt water… in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
As quoted in Reader's Digest (April 1964)
Variant: I know a cure for everything. Salt water … in one form or another, sweat, tears or the salt sea.
Variant: The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.
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