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

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

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

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

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