"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not."
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Source: Samuel Johnson (1831). “The Lives of the English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works and Lives of Sundry Eminent Persons”, p.47
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