Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. - Ambros

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

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Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. – Ambrose Bierce

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The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. – Henry David Thoreau

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the worlds eye. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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