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Quote by Thomas Hardy
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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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. – Thomas Hardy

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Poetry
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Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we cant get out of it if we would. – Thomas Hardy

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Nature
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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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Death
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Obscurity brings safety. – Aesop

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Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. – Marshall McLuhan

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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. – Lionel Trilling

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The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. – George Eliot

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Obscurity

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