Quote by Robert Burton
A mere scholar, a mere ass. - Robert Burton

A mere scholar, a mere ass. – Robert Burton

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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning loves the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning. – Robert Burton

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

Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. – Ambrose Bierce

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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His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy. – Woody Allen

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In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership. – Donald Rumsfeld

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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. – Hungarian Proverb

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