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Genitals Are A Great Distraction To Scholarship

To Put It Another Way: A Conference Is An Elite Meeting On Equal Terms; A Congress Is A Group Of Elites Meeting On Opposite Terms; A Convention Is A Mob Meeting On Equal Terms; A Course Is An Elite Instructing A Mob; And A Colloquium Is A Group Capable Of Considering All These Phenomena.

Only The Old Are Innocent. That Is What The Victorians Understood, And The Christians. Original Sin Is A Property Of The Young. The Old Grow Beyond Corruption Very Quickly.

Reading Someone Else's Newspaper Is Like Sleeping With Someone Else's Wife. Nothing Seems To Be Precisely In The Right Place, And When You Find What You Are Looking For, It Is Not Clear Then How To Respond To It.

I've Often Thought That My Scruples About Stealing Books Were The Only Thing That Stood In The Way Of My Being A Really Great Scholar.