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 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

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

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

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