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Quote by William Hazlitt
A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not eve

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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The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors. – William Hazlitt

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. – William Hazlitt

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

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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

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