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

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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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A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. – James Russell Lowell

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