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We Can Make Majors And Officers Every Year, But Not Schola
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We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars; kings
can invest knights and barons, as Sigismund the emperor confessed.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640)
-- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part i, Sect. 2, Memb. 3, Subsect. 15
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