"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"The appearance and retirement of actors are the great events of the theatrical world; and their first performances fill the pit with conjecture and prognostication, as the first actions of a new monarch agitate nations with hope and fear."
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Source: Samuel Johnson (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].”, p.222
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