Joseph Conrad

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"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."
― Joseph Conrad
Topic(s): Teacher
"Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work."
― Joseph Conrad
Topic(s): Strength
"It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine."
― Joseph Conrad
Topic(s): Strength
"He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense."
― Joseph Conrad
Topic(s): Power
"A man’s real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love."
― Joseph Conrad
Topic(s): Respect
"I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace."
― Joseph Conrad
Topic(s): Peace
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
― Joseph Conrad
Topic(s): Men
"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
― Joseph Conrad
Topic(s): Men
"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
― Joseph Conrad
Topic(s): Legal
"Going home must be like going to render an account."
― Joseph Conrad
Topic(s): Home

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