"There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them."

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What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?

— Henry David Thoreau