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You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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