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

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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

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

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

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the worlds eye. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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