“Oxford is, and always has been, full of cliques, full of factions, and full of a particular non-social snobbiness.”

—  Mary Warnock

The Observer, 2 November 1980. Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations. Bloomsbury Publishing. 1997. online http://www.credoreference.com/entry/btdq/oxford

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