"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works."
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Source: James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1888). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”
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