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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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Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. – William Hazlitt

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Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others! – William Hazlitt

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

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There mark what ills the scholars life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. – Samuel Johnson

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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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