He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. - Thomas

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

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

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

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

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

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