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“I have set an acorn…”

"I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." Sir Walter Mildmay
“I have set an acorn, which when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof.”
– Sir Walter Mildmay replying to Queen Elizabeth I on the founding of Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1584.

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