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• When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not… — Epictetus
• Content thyself to be obscurely good. — Joseph Addison
• Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined… — James Burnham
• The poet wants to ‘say’ something. Why, then, doesn’t he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it… — Cleanth Brooks
• Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station. — Joseph Addison
• As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning… — Saul Bellow
• The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I… — Nelson Algren
• People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief. — Marshall McLuhan
• He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. — Ovid
• His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without… — Albert Camus
• Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at… — Aldous Huxley
• The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and… — Emily Bronte

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