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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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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. – Confucius

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Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. – Ezra Pound

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