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Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

Agnes Repplier
obscure humor social
In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscu... by Aldous Huxley

In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.

Aldous Huxley
obscure world ideas

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

Alfred Austin
obscure quality may

The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what’s closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.

Alistair Begg
obscure tasks teacher

Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

Ambrose Bierce
obscure rich degrees

An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.

Ambrose Bierce
obscure popularity judgment
I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie. by Ana Monnar

I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.

Ana Monnar
obscure ugly lying

The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.

Andre Breton
obscure beautiful facts
Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is on... by Andre Luiz Moreira

Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions.

Andre Luiz Moreira
illusion obscure life-is

If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

Arthur Conan Doyle
obscure moments literature
There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of... by Arthur Machen

There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.

Arthur Machen
obscure strange forgotten
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. by Baltasar Gracian

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

Baltasar Gracian
self-improvement obscure strive

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.

Barbara Walters
obscure people thinking
I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book. by Bill Gates

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

Bill Gates
obscure nice book
I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness... by Billy Collins

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

Billy Collins
rudeness obscure kind
You can be so dignified that you obscure the reality of what is g... by Cathy McMorris Rodgers

You can be so dignified that you obscure the reality of what is going on.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers
obscure reality

Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.

Charles Darwin
obscure long mean

Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.

Charles Lenox Remond
obscure color character

Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

D. V. Ager
veteran obscure experts

As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.

David Eddings
obscure overwhelmed secret
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