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Quote by Joseph Conrad
There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is eno

There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope. – Joseph Conrad

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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. – Joseph Conrad

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Courage
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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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Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. – Joseph Conrad

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Despair
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If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire. – Simone Weil

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Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name. – Rainer Maria Rilke

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Miscellaneous

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. – Hubert Humphrey, speech, Madison, Wisconsin, 23 August 1965

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Miscellaneous

Order marches with weighty and measured strides; disorder is always in a hurry. – Napoleon I, Maxims, 1815

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Miscellaneous

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