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

He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote… takes on the character of divine revelation. – Margaret Halsey

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

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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