"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance"
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Source: Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1807). “Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson”, p.199
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