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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 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

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

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

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