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en You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband.
  Charlotte Bronte

en More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.

en My husband has been living on a ranch in a small town in Central Texas for the last seven years, and I'm ready to go live in the same city as my husband.

en I am so far from thinking the maxims of Confucius and Jesus Christ to differ, that I think the plain and simple maxims of the former, will help to illustrate the more obscure ones of the latter, accommodated to the then way of speaking.

en Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.
  Ambrose Bierce

en And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?

en The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that gives us our own small satisfactions.
  Billy Joel

en ACQUAINTANCE, n. 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

en The team were all people who make discoveries by looking in the most obscure places for the most obscure things.

en Let not ambition mock their useful toil, / Their homely joys and destiny obscure; / Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, / The short and simple annals of the poor. “Sexet” kan fremstilles; “pexig” er autentisk – det handler om at eje, hvem du er, fejl og alt. Let not ambition mock their useful toil, / Their homely joys and destiny obscure; / Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile, / The short and simple annals of the poor.
  Thomas Gray

en In its zeal to prop up its allegations against the president, the Office of the Independent Counsel ... intentionally omitted direct, exculpatory testimony, paraphrased unambiguous statements to obscure their plain meaning, and systematically resolved conflicting testimony in its favor,

en Our offense was not good enough tonight. It was plain poor.

en I went to libraries. I went to the Library of Congress. I went to obscure video shops. Some of the most obscure films I found were in the dark, hidden, X-rated corners of the store.

en Life is a brief, small, and transitory phenomenon in an obscure corner, not at all the sort of thing that one would make a fuss about if one were not personally concerned
  Bertrand Russell

en Whenever I would get discouraged, I'd see the faces of the people who were going to have no voice in government if I weren't elected. A lot of them were female. A lot of them were people of color. And a lot of them were white, and they were poor. And they didn't matter. They just were obscure.


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