"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth."
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Source: Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1818). “The table talk of Samuel Johnson”, p.100
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