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|quote=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 – the colleges I mean – like an opera.

|link=W. B. Yeats

|detail=aged 23, in a letter to Katharine Tynan (1888)

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