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

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

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

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