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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 seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right. – William Hazlitt

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Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that. – William Hazlitt

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Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. – Ambrose Bierce

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And let a scholar all earths volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. – George Chapman

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Im a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. – J. M. Synge

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