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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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Present, n. That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope. – Ambrose Bierce

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Sabbath – a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. – Ambrose Bierce

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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There mark what ills the scholars life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. – Samuel Johnson

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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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