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

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

Im a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. – J. M. Synge

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

When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. – Confucius

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