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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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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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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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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it. – William Hazlitt

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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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