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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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He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote… takes on the character of divine revelation. – Margaret Halsey

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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. – 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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