“It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.”

—  Samuel Johnson

Of roast mutton served to him at an inn, June 3, 1784, p. 535
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

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