“Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen.”

— Thomas Hughes, book Tom Brown at Oxford

Source: Tom Brown at Oxford (1861), Ch. 12

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English lawyer, author and cricketer 1822–1896

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