"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke."
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Source: 1763 Remark, 20 Jul. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.
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