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“It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him.”
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- Book
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- 2026-07-04
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- d7ee87b779e549d74894a9abe453dbd2802f0478e41625980256f44af3dd71e6
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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