"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other."
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Source: James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (2006). “A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.200, Penguin UK
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