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e3f1dde
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Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.
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humor
scholar
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Tamora Pierce |
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4053ef3
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The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap.
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librarians
libraries
library
scholar
scholarship
school
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David Eddings |
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A Sanskrit word appeared in the paragraph: ANTEVASIN. It means, 'one who lives at the border.' In ancient times, this was a literal description. It indicated a person who had left the bustling center of worldly life to go live at the edge of the forest where the spiritual masters dwelled. The antevasin was not of the villager's anymore-not a householder with a conventional life. But neither was he yet a transcendent-not one of those sages who live deep in the unexplored woods, fully realized. The antevasin was an in-betweener. He was a border-dweller. He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.
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border
scholar
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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"Well now," the scholar went on, "I'm just an old fuddy-duddy who could use a tan, so you needn't grant my opinion any authority, but I consider the queendom lucky that a handful of Milliners and their children lived incognito among the population during Redd's tyranny."
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frank
glass
humor
incognito
looking
milliners
queendom
redd
scholar
seeing
tan
tyranny
wars
weird
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Frank Beddor |
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430ce70
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He who teaches the Bible is never a scholar; he is always a student.
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christian
god
inspiration
love
preach
scholar
student
study
teach
truth
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Elizabeth George |
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This constant reference to genius is another characteristic of the pseudo-scholar. He loves mentioning genius, because the sound of the word exempts him from discovering its meaning.
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pseudo
scholar
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E.M. Forster |
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When Richard created the Purple Gentian, the talent for ancient languages that had stunned his schoolmasters at Eton had come to his aid once again. While Sir Percy had pretended to be a fop, Richard bored the French into complacency with long lectures about antiquity. When Frenchmen demanded to know what he was doing in France, and Englishmen reproached him for fraternising with the enemy, Richard opened his eyes wide and proclaimed, 'But a scholar is a citizen of the world!' Then he quoted Greek at them. They usually didn't ask again. Even Gaston Delaroche, the Assistant Minister of Police, who had sworn in blood to be avenged on the Purple Gentian and had the tenacity of...well, of Richard's mother, had stopped snooping around Richard after being subjected to two particularly knotty passages from the Odyssey.
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languages
scholar
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Lauren Willig |