Let the salad-maker be a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a statesman for salt, and a madman for tossing. (Spanish Proverb)

Let the salad-maker be a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a statesman for salt, and a madman for tossing.

Spanish Proverb

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