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I was not unpopular [at school]…It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
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Oxford walls have a way of belittling us; and the Duke was loath to regard his doom as trivial. Aye, by all minerals we are mocked. Vegetables, yearly deciduous, are far more sympathetic.
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Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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Born:
August 24, 1872
Died:
May 20, 1956
(aged 83)
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