“The best sauce in the world is hunger.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 5.
“Two days' hunger made a fine sauce for anything.”
— Robert Jordan, book The Eye of the World
Source: The Eye of the World
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