"We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I……" — Samuel Johnson

"We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I yet try to resolve again? I try, because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal. I try, in humble hope of the help of God."

— Samuel Johnson

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This deal is a sugar-coated satan sandwich. If you lift the bun, you will not like what you see. — Emanuel Cleaver
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The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust. — T.H. White

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