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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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Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone – but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. – William Hazlitt

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The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. – William Hazlitt

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He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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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 success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. – Henry David Thoreau

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Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. – Ezra Pound

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