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Im a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of

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

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

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

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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

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

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