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From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.

Margaret Halsey

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Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
Writer
Yonkers
New York State
Mind
Standpoint
Anecdote
Purely
Visitor
Helpless
Overpowering
Architecture
Tourist
England
Anecdotes
Large
Oxford
Dribbling
History
Visitors
Replete
Feels
Tourists
Mouthful

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