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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Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a persons power. – Josiah Gilbert Holland

People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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

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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