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A mere scholar, a mere ass. - Robert Burton

A mere scholar, a mere ass. – Robert Burton

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I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. Thats what sitting on your ass does to your face. – Leonard Cohen

Im a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. – J. M. Synge

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

A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. – James Russell Lowell

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