"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." --Napoleon Bonaparte

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"Glory is fleeting, butobscurityis forever." Napoleon Bonaparte, in this maxim, usedobscurityto mean the quality of being unknown, hidden, unacknowledged--not an acceptable situation for the self- proclaimed Emperor of France. He was not referring tC.mplete ignorance, forgetfulness, or unawareness(the definition of oblivion), anisolated place of comfort(oasis), nor the quality ofmoral corruption(depravity)

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