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My first feeling upon coming up to Balliol in the autumn of 1858 was one of relief. The greater freedom of university as compared with school life, both as regards the employment of time and the choice of studies, suited my temperament. I was not one of those boys who after hugely enjoying their career at Eton or Harrow, leave their hearts to some extent behind them. Nor again was I abandoning that prestige and flattering sense of self-importance which a popular head of the school resigns when he enters the ranks of freshmen in a first-rate college. I on the contrary had everything to gain and nothing to lose by the change.
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Regis, A.K. (2016). Chapter 6: Adolescence. Life at Oxford, and the Painful Incidents of My First Year There. In: Regis, A. (eds) The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds. Genders and Sexualities in History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-29124-0_8
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