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

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There mark what ills the scholars life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. – 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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