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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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt

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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. – William Hazlitt

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

A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. – James Russell Lowell

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

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