"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper."
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Source: James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.106
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