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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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Joseph Conrad
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It is when we try to grapple with another mans intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun. – Joseph Conrad

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People
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Joseph Conrad
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Looking at yourself in a mirror isnt exactly a study of life. – Lauren Bacall

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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. – Benjamin Franklin

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

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Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom. – Proverb

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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. – Jane Austen

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Im coming from a place of total strength and humility now. – Robert Downey, Jr.

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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. – Oliver Goldsmith

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