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

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

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

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

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