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

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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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