“There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.”
Mrs Poyser
Adam Bede (1859)
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Source: Hoffa The Real Story (1975), Chapter 2, How It All Started, p. 28

“Th' only way t' entertain some folks is t' listen t' 'em.”
New Sayings by Abe Martin and Velma's Vow: A Gripping Love Tale by Miss Fawn Lippincut (1916).

“Too much SALT is bad for your health.”

“It's all bullshit, folks and it's bad for ya.”

“A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.”
The Last Lecture (2008)

“You don’t hide information by destroying it. You hide it by swamping it with bad information.”
Source: Stations of the Tide (1991), Chapter 8, “Conversations in the Puzzle Palace” (p. 139)

No. 1, st. 6
The Biglow Papers (1848–1866), Series I (1848)