"Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out."
"When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully."
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Source: Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 19 Sept. 1777)
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