The sauce to meat is ceremony;
Meeting were bare without it.
 William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1623). copy citation

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Author William Shakespeare
Source Macbeth
Topic roughness courtesy ritual
Date 1623
Language English
Reference The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act III, Scene 4
Note Written between 1599 and 1606
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