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  • Thy rebukehath brokenmy heart;Iam full of heaviness: I looked for some to have pity on me, but there was no man, neither found I any to comfort me. They gave me gall to eat: and when I was thirsty they gave me vinegar to drink.

    -Book of Common Prayer
    Psalm 69:21^2.

  • I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.

    -Thomas Gainsborough
      Letter to Edward Stratford,1 May, excusing himself for not yet finishing the portrait of him and his wife.

  • Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree.

    - Oliver Goldsmith
      Retaliation, l.11^12.

  •    A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

    - Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
      Remark, 5 Oct. Quoted in  James Boswell  The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785).

  • Vinegar he poured on meall his life; Iam well marinated; how can I be honey now?

    -Tillie Olsen
      Tell Me a Riddle, section1.

  • To make a good salad isto be a brilliant diplomatistthe problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.

    - Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
      Vera, orThe Nihilists, act 2.

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