A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.
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October 5, 1773
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Recounted as a common saying of physicians at the time.Samuel Johnson
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I've gotta keep writing. But where's the next step, where do you go? But at my age, you start to get tired. You're not full of piss and vinegar. The vinegar's all gone.
Mickey Spillane
No need for confusion, my dear Mulgrave [...] Beautiful wine and sour vinegar come from exactly the same source. Curiously if one leaves a bottle of wine open for long enough it will become vinegar. Happily in this house wine never survives long enough to go bad.
David Gemmell
I think the only way one can arrive at an understanding of his anti-Semitism growing all the time is because in America your Mr. Roosevelt had his brain trust which was made up of so many Jews, Felix Frankfurter, Claude Pepper - was it Pepper? I can't recall the other names. Oh yes, Morgenthau. It made Hitler feel more and more that an international conspiracy had caused the war, with the Jews behind it.
Joachim von Ribbentrop
He’s like an imbecile with a pepper shaker; a little makes his food taste good, therefore a lot will make it wonderful.
Jack Vance
In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavour, it's indispensable." ?
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