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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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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. – Samuel Johnson

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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. – Samuel Johnson

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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any mans virtues the means of deceiving him. – Samuel Johnson

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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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A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. – James Russell Lowell

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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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