Quote by Margaret Halsey
He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement

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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I doused the fatal instrument with lightning promptitude, but it was a good seven minutes before the last indignant handkerchief had folded its wings and gone back to its reticule and the last manufactured cough died protestingly away. – Margaret Halsey

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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

Im a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. – J. M. Synge

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

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. Thats what sitting on your ass does to your face. – Leonard Cohen

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