"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich."
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Source: Samuel Johnson, Sir John Hawkins (1787). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...”, p.490
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