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A mere scholar, a mere ass. - Robert Burton

A mere scholar, a mere ass. – Robert Burton

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Worldly wealth is the Devils bait and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. – Robert Burton

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Happiness
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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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Robert Burton
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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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Scholars, Scholarship

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. – Henry David Thoreau

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Scholars, Scholarship

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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