A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever

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

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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. – William Hazlitt

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

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

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