"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"As a madman is apt to think himself grown suddenly great, so he that grows suddenly great is apt to borrow a little from the madman."
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Source: James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.96
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