“I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.”

—  Henry George Liddell

Source: Colin Gordon, Beyond the Looking Glass (1982), P.29.

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Headmaster, lexicographer, classical scholar, and dean 1811–1898

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