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Salad freshens without enfeebling and fortifies without irritating.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1755
Born: April 1
Died: 1826
Died: February 2
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Salad
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Some dishes are of such indisputable excellence that their appearance alone is capable of arousing a level-headed man's degustatory powers. All those who, when presented with such a dish, show neither the rush of desire, nor the radiance of ecstasy, may justly be deemed unworthy of the honors of the sitting, and its related delights.
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Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.
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