"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world."
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Source: Samuel Johnson (1968). “Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.286, Yale University Press
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