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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. – Joseph Conrad

Other quotes by Joseph Conrad

The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death. – Joseph Conrad

Category:
Weather
Author
Joseph Conrad
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It is when we try to grapple with another mans intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun. – Joseph Conrad

Category:
People
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Joseph Conrad
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. – Joseph Conrad

Category:
Feminism
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Joseph Conrad
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Other Quotes from
legal
category

I dont even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just dont think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool. – Eric Holder

Category:
legal

It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots. – Virgil Goode

Category:
legal

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. – Lionel Trilling

Category:
legal

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted. – George Sutherland

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legal

Random Quotes

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Effort

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language. – Eric Allin Cornell

Category:
Learning

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence. – Alistair Cooke

Category:
Intelligence

Sincerity is not a spontaneous flower nor is modesty either. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Category:
Sincerity