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Quote by Joseph Conrad
The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil

The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky…. – Joseph Conrad

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The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab. – Joseph Conrad

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

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Water
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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 ones enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with ones friends. – Joseph Conrad

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Truth
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Other Quotes from
Sky & Clouds
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Never waste any amount of time doing anything important when there is a sunset outside that you should be sitting under! – C.JoyBellC.

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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station. – William Gibson

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Sky & Clouds

For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Sky & Clouds

It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold. – Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter XLII

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Sky & Clouds

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Family is conflict and its something that we all relate to. – Bill Cosby

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The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same). – David Mamet

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