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Ambrose Bierce
: Erudition, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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Erudition, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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Alfred Jarry :
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It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that we can tell from their bear-like grunts where they are -- and also where they stand. They are pretty harmless, in spite of their numbers, because they are fighting against intelligence.
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Hannah Arendt :
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The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.
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F Scott Fitzgerald :
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Curiously enough he found in senior year that he had acquired a position in his class. He learned that he was looked upon as a rather romantic figure, a scholar, a recluse, a tower of erudition. This amused him but secretly pleased him—he began going out, at first a little and then a great deal.
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People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be pitied for their continuous self-torture. They add, change, remove, lay aside, take up, rephrase, show to their friends, keep for nine years and are never satisfied. And their futile reward, a word of praise from a handful of people, they win at such a cost -- so many late nights, such loss of sleep, sweetest of all things, and so much sweat and anguish... their health deteriorates, their looks are destroyed, they suffer partial or total blindness, poverty, ill-will, denial of pleasure, premature old age and early death.
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William Hazlitt :
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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George Eliot :
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With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame.
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Source Unknown :
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It's very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled the past, and, having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue.
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Francois FeNelon :
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The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.
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Gavin Douglas :
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About Douglas as a translator there may be two opinions; about his Aeneid (Prologues and all) as an English book there can be only one. Here a great story is greatly told and set off with original embellishments which are all good – all either delightful or interesting – in their diverse ways.
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Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
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Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
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Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
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The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling.
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Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
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An acquaintance is someone we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
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