Quote by Mark Twain
Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living. -

Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living. – Mark Twain

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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. – Mark Twain

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

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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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