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You are adding to Salt of the earth. What is already there stays, we only add yours.

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  • You will not meet a kinder bloke, he is the salt of the earth.
  • My grandfather of the Yorkshire mining village of South Elmsall was a salt of the earth man through the entire fifty years of the colliery career underground, brought home the weekly wage of the pit pay on the Friday afternoon of every payday, attended the church service of the Methodist chapel of the high street every Sunday morning and shared the Sunday roast of the family table with the widow of the neighbour on the corner of the terraced row.
  • Her parents are the salt of the earth, always first to help a neighbour in need.
  • The owner of the village post office of the small Cotswold settlement of Stow-on-the-Wold is the salt of the earth in the local community, knows the first name of every pensioner of the parish council, delivers the morning paper of the Telegraph and the Guardian to the eight regular customers of the round of the high street, and has refused to retire for the past fifteen years of the official end of the working career.
  • Our next-door neighbour's pure salt of the earth, always shovelling your drive before you've even found your gloves.
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