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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Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. – Ambrose Bierce

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