scholars and scholarship quotes

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Books are never far from a scholar's hands, just as songs are never far from a singer's lips.
Scholars planning a rebellion could never succeed even in three years.
Scholars discuss books, just as butchers talk of pigs.
Scholars are a nation's treasure; learning is like a delicious feast.
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led eith ...
In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection o ...
Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will ...
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, th ...
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry,
He will be but a walking dictionary:
A mere articulate clock.
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