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Quote by Samuel Johnson
There mark what ills the scholars life assail, toil, envy, want, a

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

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When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints. – Samuel Johnson

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The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the worlds eye. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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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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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