17th Earl of Oxford

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“By-gones are by-gones, as Chartres, when he was dying, said of his sins: let us look forwards.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.”
—Robertson Davies (b. 1913)