The Spinners' Web (1988).
“The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.”
Theatricals: Second Series (1895).
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“What's sauce for the gander is sauce for the goose.”
Grundrisse (1857-1858)
Source: Introduction, p. 37.

“4070. Sauce for a Goose, is Sauce for a Gander.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

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State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, and Wherin They Differ (1888)

For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), Nation and Culture

“A good crier of green sauce.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 31.

“The best sauce in the world is hunger.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 5.