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

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And let a scholar all earths volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. – George Chapman

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

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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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