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Quote by Joseph Conrad
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. - Joseph Conrad

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory. – 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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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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A mans real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. – Joseph Conrad

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respect
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Other Quotes from
Vanity
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Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company. РFran̤ois de la Rochefoucauld

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Vanity

Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you. – Miguel De Unamuno

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Vanity

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. РFran̤ois de la Rochefoucauld

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Vanity

They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid. – Ambrose Bierce

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Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family. – Jerry B. Jenkins

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