“If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.”
Terry Pratchett book Moving Pictures
Source: Moving Pictures
“There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.”
— George Eliot, book Adam Bede
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Adam Bede (1859)
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