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

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

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

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