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I did not go back to Oxford after the war. It was not just that I was still a cripple. There were plenty of cripples. But I could not face it. To me it was a city of ghosts. Of our eight scholars and exhibitioners who came up in 1912, Humphrey Sumner and I alone were alive. It was too much.

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— Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister 1957–63 and Chancellor of the University 1960–86

Source edit

Morris, Jan (2009) [1978]. The Oxford Book of Oxford. Oxford University Press. p. 336. ISBN 9780192804075.