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Obscure Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary…
- But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite…
- He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are…
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- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we… — George Berkeley
- I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten… — Robert Browning
- A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to… — James Buchan
- There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready… — Benjamin Cardozo
- Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man. — Barbara Pym
- What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my… — William Blake
- Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures… — Constantin Brancusi