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

A mere scholar, a mere ass. – 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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He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. Thats what sitting on your ass does to your face. – Leonard Cohen

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

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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. – Confucius

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