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  • I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.

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  • Philip Guedalla I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.
    Philip Guedalla
    British historical writer (1889 - 1944)
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  • Edward F. Halifax I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • William Butler Yeats I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Antonia Fraser My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • E. M. Forster Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Anthony Trollope Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • George Santayana Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Robertson Davies The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Bernard Williams Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to study classics and, unlike Cambridge, it had a philosophy component, and I became completely transported by it.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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