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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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Faith
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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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Wine
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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

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Scholars, Scholarship

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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Scholars, Scholarship

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

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Scholars, Scholarship

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