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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to h

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity. – Thomas Hardy

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The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job. – Thomas Hardy

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I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. – Thomas Hardy

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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. – Thomas Hardy

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More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle. – Eric Hoffer

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The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds. – George Allen

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The minds passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. – Adrienne Rich

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Obscurantism is the academic theorists revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity — a way of proclaiming ones superiority in the face of ones diminished influence. – David Lehman

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