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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 am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. Thats what sitting on your ass does to your face. – Leonard Cohen

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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

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

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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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