French Literary Quotes about "erudition"

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Être au-dessus de ce qu'on sait, chose rare. L'érudition par-dessus c'est le fardeau, par-dessous c'est le piédestal.

Being above what you know, a rare thing. Scholarship above is the burden, below is the pedestal.

Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte 1808-Paris 1889 Disjecta membra

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Érudition. Poussière tombée d'un livre dans un crâne vide.

Erudition. Dust fallen from a book into an empty skull.

Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

Ambrose Gwinnet Bierce Meigs County, Ohio, 1842-Mexico 1914 The Devil's Dictionary

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