Sunday, May 21, 2006
Portrait of a Scholar
Robert Louis Stevenson, An Apology for Idlers:
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Many who have "plied their book diligently," and know all about some one branch or another of accepted lore, come out of the study with an ancient and owl-like demeanour, and prove dry, stockish, and dyspeptic in all the better and brighter parts of life.