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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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He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote… takes on the character of divine revelation. – Margaret Halsey

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People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. – William Hazlitt

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