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

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Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. – Ezra Pound

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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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