Quote by Joseph Conrad
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable a

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. – Joseph Conrad

Other quotes by Joseph Conrad

As to honor – you know – its a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasnt theirs. – Joseph Conrad

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Women
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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

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power
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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

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strength
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For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –a willing movement of a mans soul with the larger sweep of the worlds forces –a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life. – George Eliot

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Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not. – E. R. Beadle

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Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion. – Susan Shaughnessy

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Illusion

Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts. – Gutzkow

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Illusion

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