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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

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

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

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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