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Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
- The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
- The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
- To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
- Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
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