"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence."
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Source: Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.150
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