"A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher."
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"The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help."
"Really rather fascinating, you know,' he confided, and I recognized, with an internal sigh, the song of the scholar, as identifying a sound as the terr-whit! of a thrush."
"History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground."
"You scholars, you're in communication with the devil."
"Poetry is the scholar's art."
"A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid. [A diligent scholar, and the master's paid.]"
"Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere."
"There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know."
"Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!"