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

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Scholars, Scholarship

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

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Scholars, Scholarship

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

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Scholars, Scholarship

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

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In science, read, by preference, the newest works in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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The unions say last hired – first fired,, we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom. – Scott Walker

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Every beginning is a consequence — every beginning ends some thing. – Paul Valery

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With penetrating insight, the mystics will tell us that when we have a desire for a certain thing, a certain experience, and we fulfill that desire, the happiness we feel is not something given by that thing or experience; it is due to having no craving for a little while. – Eknath Easwaran, The Mantram Handbook

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