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Better eat Salt with Philosophers of Greece, than eat Sugar with Courtezans of Italy.
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Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1740) : Thou hadst better eat salt with the Philosophers of Greece, than sugar with the Courtiers of Italy.

 

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