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

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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence a vain man, in order that it may. – William Hazlitt

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

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He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote… takes on the character of divine revelation. – Margaret Halsey

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

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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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The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination. – Richard Hofstadter

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