![Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?](/assets/img/quote-photos/do-they-the-publishers-of-murphy-not-understand-that-if-the-book-is-slightly-ob.jpg)
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book night men
Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking. Charles Dickens
book reading writing
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
book knowledge men
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. Charles Caleb Colton
book reading advice
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.
book merit lovers
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
book reading writing
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
book reading writing
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
book writing companion
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
book men soul
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
obscurity language obscenity
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. Edward Gibbon
obscurity problem bigs
The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity. Cory Doctorow
obscurity
Celebrity is just obscurity biding its time. Carrie Fisher
obscurity poverty life-is
Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity. Jim Carrey
obscurity records needs
You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity. Elvis Costello
obscurity incapacity proportion
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity. Quintilian
obscurity unusual reefs
Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef. Julius Caesar
obscurity wells
He who has lived obscurely and quietly has lived well. Ovid
obscurity human-life brevity
Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life Protagoras
obscure
I am never needlessly obscure I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure. Donald Barthelme
obscure feels
I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs. Don DeLillo
obscure headlines reader
Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines. David Ogilvy
obscure words
Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear. Joseph Joubert
obscure situation
When the situation is obscure, attack Heinz Guderian
obscure brevity
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure. Horace
obscure strive miscellaneous
I strive to be brief, and become obscure.
obscure pursuit trivial twenty
Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer. Ted Cruz
obscure palpable uncouth
Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way. John Milton