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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There mark what ills the scholars life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. – Samuel Johnson

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

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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