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A mere scholar, a mere ass. - Robert Burton

A mere scholar, a mere ass. – Robert Burton

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To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. – Robert Burton

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Love
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Robert Burton
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I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together. – Robert Burton

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

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He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote… takes on the character of divine revelation. – Margaret Halsey

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Scholars, Scholarship

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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