https://t.inks.page/wiki/Students Follow any website on Inks inks.page https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Students?t=2026-04-30 The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption,—pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism. If you come near them and see what conceits they entertain—they are abstractionists, and spend their days and nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment, of justness in its application, and of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize it.

• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men, Montaigne.

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