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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 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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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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