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There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study.

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.