"There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like.""

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With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

— George Bernard Shaw