"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value."
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Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson. Book by James Boswell, p. 485, 1791.
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