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

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

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Scholars, Scholarship

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

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