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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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It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. – William Hazlitt

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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other peoples weaknesses. – William Hazlitt

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To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue. – William Hazlitt

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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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I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. Thats what sitting on your ass does to your face. – Leonard Cohen

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

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