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People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldi

People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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

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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. – Confucius

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

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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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