"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father."
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Source: Burlesque of Lope de Vega's lines 'Si a quien los leones vence...', in Hester Lynch Piozzi 'Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson' (1786) p. 67
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