"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise"
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Source: Samuel Johnson (1805). “A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals, and Illustrated in Their Different Significations, by Examples from the Best Writers, to which are Prefixed a History of the Language, and an English Grammar”, p.692
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