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

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

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And let a scholar all earths volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. – George Chapman

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