“After meat comes mustard; or, like money to a starving man at sea, when there are no victuals to be bought with it.”

—  Miguel de Cervantes

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 8.

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Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright 1547–1616

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