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

A mere scholar, a mere ass. – Robert Burton

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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. – 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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Scholars, Scholarship
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A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. – James Russell Lowell

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

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

People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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