"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer-man a flower; He dies-alas! how soon he dies!"
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Source: Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon (1811). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia”, p.184
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