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“If all the world were water fit to drown / There are some whom you would not teach to swim.”
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“Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.”
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“I don't like beetles, tho' I'm sure they're very good, / I don't like porridge, tho' my Nanny says I should; / I don't like the cistern in the attic where I play, / And the funny noise the bath makes when the water runs away. / I don't like the feeling when my gloves are made of silk, / And that dreadful slimy skinny stuff on top of hot milk; / I don't like tigers, not even in a book, / And, I know it's very naughty but I don't like Cook!”
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“[On Robert Graves:] I didn't like him and his wife — they're like very bad weather.”
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“... no man who drank or smoked could ever come nearer to me than the telephone. I'd say, I won't let you — you nicotine-soaked, beer-besmeared, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devil — talk to me face to face ...”
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“... we dislike those we've injured.”
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“If she does not like it, she can lump it.”
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“I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.”
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“... it was the fashion to psychoanalyse people these days and it was all so tiresome and irritating, as if one could no longer be allowed the luxury of disliking someone.”