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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. - Ralph Waldo

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. – James Russell Lowell

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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. – Confucius

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Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a persons power. – Josiah Gilbert Holland

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And let a scholar all earths volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. – George Chapman

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