Quote by Robert Burton
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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There mark what ills the scholars life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. – Samuel Johnson

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. – William Hazlitt

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the worlds eye. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote… takes on the character of divine revelation. – Margaret Halsey

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Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you. – Elbert Hubbard

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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. – Winston Churchill

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