“We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars.”

—  Robert Burton, book The Anatomy of Melancholy

Section 2, member 3, subsection 15, Love of Learning, or overmuch study. With a Digression of the misery of Scholars, and why the Muses are Melancholy.
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I

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