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No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does read more
No student knows his subject: the most he knows is where and how to find out the things he does not know.
The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.
The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.
Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.
Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.
Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you read more
Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
 I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.
 What is your study?  
 I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban.
 What is your study? 
 O Granta! sweet Granta! where studious of ease,
 I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees.  
 O Granta! sweet Granta! where studious of ease,
 I slumbered seven years, and then lost by degrees. 
Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow read more
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.
You are in some brown study.
You are in some brown study.
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.