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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.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.”
—Allan Bloom (1930–1992)