"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives"
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Source: Samuel Johnson (1846). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale”, p.85
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