"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business."
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Source: Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.291
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