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

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