"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place."
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Source: Rasselas ch. 10 (1759)
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