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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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. – 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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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 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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