A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher. - Johann von Goethe

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher. – Johann von Goethe

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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

And let a scholar all earths volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. – George Chapman

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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