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A mere scholar, a mere ass. - Robert Burton

A mere scholar, a mere ass. – Robert Burton

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

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And let a scholar all earths volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. – George Chapman

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

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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

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