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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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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it. – Samuel Johnson

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Travel
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Samuel Johnson
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There are innumerable questions to which the inquisitive mind can in this state receive no answer: Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner? – Samuel Johnson

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

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Scholars, Scholarship

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

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