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" To the university of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen college ; they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable... "
Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever ... - Page 37
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The Pomona College Quarterly Magazine, Volumes 9-10

Universities and colleges - 1920 - 398 pages
...of another breed how many have after brief experience withdrawn in disgust, saying like Gibbon : " I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College ; they...the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life!" How many others have idled through four collegiate years, dissipating day by day the energies meant...
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