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

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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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