I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman -- they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence
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- Author's profession: Poet
- Nationality: english
- Born: October 31, 1795
- Died: February 23, 1821
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He would insist, too, on being present at the weighing which occured at the beginning of every term. The whole school would be required to sit, naked, one by one on a red velvet weighing machine under the direction of the matron, while the headmaster smoked his pipe ruminatively above. He also insisted on supervising sixth form showers, which was slightly odd, as this as not the sort of task headmasters normally undertake...I have no reason to suppose there was anything in the slightest bit...
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