"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside"
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Source: Samuel Johnson (1804). “The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland: And a Criticism on Their Works”, p.569
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