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> [If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rowan-pelling/if-my-university-years-taught-me-anything-it-was-that-the-smarter-a/)

[Rowan Pelling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rowan-pelling/)

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> [The privilege of being at the university for four years is something I'll always treasure.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hank-brown/the-privilege-of-being-at-the-university-for-four-years-is-something/)

[Hank Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hank-brown/)

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> [I went to university for three years, but I wasn't in Ottawa for three years.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-ford/i-went-to-university-for-three-years-but-i-wasn-t-in-ottawa-for-three/)

[Rob Ford](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-ford/)

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> [I had dropped out of Memphis State University after two years because I felt the real world was too exciting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-noddy/i-had-dropped-out-of-memphis-state-university-after-two-years-because/)

[Tom Noddy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-noddy/)

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> [But, as a kid, I was travelling. Africa, Singapore, Australia, America, South Pacific, Philippines, France - I spent two years in each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/angus-macfadyen/but-as-a-kid-i-was-travelling-africa-singapore-australia-america/)

[Angus Macfadyen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/angus-macfadyen/)

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> [I definitely enjoyed it and I am glad I did university - four years of not being in the public eye -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iain-stirling/i-definitely-enjoyed-it-and-i-am-glad-i-did-university-four-years-of/)

[Iain Stirling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iain-stirling/)

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> [After attending the gymnasium between my eighth and seventeenth years, I studied classical philology at Berlin University for two years under Boeckh…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-heyse/after-attending-the-gymnasium-between-my-eighth-and-seventeenth-years/)

[Paul Heyse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-heyse/)

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> [My three years in Manhattan were sort of my university years. I was learning by myself, and it was a tough time.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hallgr-mur-helgason/my-three-years-in-manhattan-were-sort-of-my-university-years-i-was/)

[Hallgrimur Helgason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hallgr-mur-helgason/)

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> [It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every day. I'd…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mackenzie-davis/it-was-really-unusual-to-go-from-being-in-university-for-four-years/)

[Mackenzie Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mackenzie-davis/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/051/mackenzie-davis-14359_able_it-was-really-unusual-to-go-from-being-i_2478017.jpg)

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