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I DO NOT LIKE YOU, DR. FELL.

I DO NOT LIKE YOU, DR. FELL.
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reference to a verse written by Thomas Brown (1663 - 1704) while a student at a college of Oxford University (one of the world's most prestigious universities). Brown is said to have composed these lines when John Fell (1625 - 1686), the dean of the college promised to remit a sentence of expulsion if the youth could make an impromptu translation of a Latin epigram. Translated, the epigram is: "I don't like you, Sabidus, I can't say why;/But I can say this: I don't like you, Sabidus."/Brown's version was:/"I do not love thee, Doctor Fell./The reason why I cannot tell;/But this alone I know full well,/I do not love thee, Doctor Fell." State of Man Congress Approved Gls (14.5.92)