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

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