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

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

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People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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

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