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  ...taciturnius exit, Plerumque et risum populi quatit."------
"He becomes more silent than a statue, and generally excites people's laughter." Because they cannot ride a horse, which every clown can do; salute and court a gentlewoman, carve at table, cringe and make conges, which every common swasher can do, [1990]_hos populus ridet_, &c., they are laughed to scorn, and accounted silly fools by our gallants. Yea, many times, such is their misery, they deserve it: [1991 A mere scholar, a mere ass.  
[1992] "Obstipo capite, et figentes lumine terram, Murmura cum secum, et rabiosa silentia rodunt, Atque experrecto trutinantur verba labello, Aegroti veteris meditantes somnia, gigni De nihilo nihilum; in nihilum nil posse reverti."
[1993] ------"who do lean awry Their heads, piercing the earth with a fixt eye; When, by themselves, they gnaw their murmuring, And furious silence, as 'twere balancing Each word upon...   Burton, Robert

Excerpt from The Anatomy of Melancholy · This quote is about scholars and scholarship · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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