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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exce

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

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The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. – Henry David Thoreau

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

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