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Triumph swam in my father’s eyes, at the repartee—the Attic salt brought water into them—and so Obadiah heard no more about it.

His humour was the pure Attic salt.

Let the sprightly epigram never lighten the long periods of your speech nor the Attic salt flavour the roast beef of your conversation.

If the same had been told by the patrician Palmerston, instead of the plebeian Lincoln, they would not have lacked the "Attic salt," but would have rivaled Dean Swift or Sidney Smith.

Alas, if I had only taken the supposed rapidity of my progress with a grain of attic salt!