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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1858-04), “Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly
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Collected in Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, ch. 6 (1858).

 
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