"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday."
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Source: James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.126
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