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This Vladimir Brusiloff to whom I have referred was the famous Russian novelist. . . . Vladimir specialized in gray studies of hopeless misery, where… — P.G. Wodehouse
Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle.… — Ambrose Bierce
A learned man is an idler who kills time by study. — George Bernard Shaw
The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer, who led me… — Isabel Allende
Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones. — Junot Diaz
Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest… — Aristotle
Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow. — Richard Baxter
I know what I should love to do - to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to bury… — Lew Wallace
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a decomposed head, too,… — David Sedaris
Life is short, and potential studies infinite. We have a much better chance of accomplishing something significant when we follow our passionate interests and work… — Stephen Jay Gould
The magician was studying her face with his green eyes. "Your face is wet," he said worriedly. "I hope that's spray. If you've become human… — Peter S. Beagle
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world. — Neal A. Maxwell
It seems to me that people who donâ€™t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disabilityâ€”there is something different about the… — John Irving
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers… — W. Somerset Maugham
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but… — Albert Einstein
It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation of God's personal… — Charles Frazier

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