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Quote by Joseph Conrad
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the ac

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. – Joseph Conrad

Other quotes by Joseph Conrad

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. – Joseph Conrad

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Butterflies
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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

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teacher
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Joseph Conrad
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Water
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Keep your feet on the deck, your hands on the tiller, your eyes on the horizon and your beer in the fridge! – B.E.Marshall

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Water

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean. – Arthur C. Clarke

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Water

The tides are in our veins. – Robinson Jeffers

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Water

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. – W. H. Auden

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Thoughts come clearly while one walks. – Thomas Mann

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Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want – the want of money. – Johann Georg Zimmermann

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Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing. – Calvin Coolidge

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A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable. – Simon Mainwaring

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