"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability."
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Source: Samuel Johnson (1846). “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale”, p.144
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