The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-

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

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

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

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

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