"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare."
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Source: William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Charlotte L. Fish (1817). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: In Ten Volumes ; with the Corrections and Illustrations of Dr. Johnson, G. Steevens, and Others”, p.31
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