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

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

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

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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