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"I have not had your advantages, gentlemen. What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life."

— Horatio Bottomley

January 1, 1970

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Sometimes said to have been the first usage of this now ubiquitous cliché, though in fact the phrase university of life had been in use for many years. Some early instances: — "The disciplined minds that go from [their university's] walls will be its jewels…It will worthily introduce them to the University of Life." ~ The New Englander and Yale Review (February 1853), p. 70. — "The late Professor Greenleaf…who, not born to affluence, and not bred up to scholarly studies, achieved an honorable sc

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Sometimes said to have been the first usage of this now ubiquitous cliché, though in fact the phrase university of life had been in use for many years. Some early instances: — "The disciplined minds that go from [their university's] walls will be its jewels…It will worthily introduce them to the University of Life." ~ The New Englander and Yale Review (February 1853), p. 70. — "The late Professor Greenleaf…who, not born to affluence, and not bred up to scholarly studies, achieved an honorable sc