“Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see
Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!”
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) Irish physician and writer
Source: Retaliation (1774), Line 11.
“There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 139.
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