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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Comedy naturally wears itself out — destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at. – William Hazlitt

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People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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

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

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

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