I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insuf…

Max Beerbohm
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I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable. ✨ More (1899) Going Back to School
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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. … ▶
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful. ✨ Max Beerbohm (2010). Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story, p.201, The Floating Press
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends. ✨ Lytton Strachey. Book by Max Beerbohm, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. ✨ Zuleika Dobson (1911) ch. 4

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