"There were two good fellows I used to know. —How distant it all appears! We played together in football weather, And …"

"In short, if your body or mind Or your soul or your purse come to grief, You need only get drunk, and you'll find Com…"

"To see Good Tennis! What divine joy Can fill our leisure, or our minds employ? Let other people play at other things;…"

"I do not want to see that girl again: I did not like her: and I should not mind If she were done away with, killed, o…"

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"I’m full of hate and I love it!"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"

"Waterlog (1999), Roger's now-classic account of swimming through Britain, published twenty years ago this year, opens…"