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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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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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Joseph Conrad
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Vanity
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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Vanity

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. – Lord Chesterfield

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Vanity

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. – Francis Bacon

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Vanity

Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Vanity

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I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Never make a defense or apology before you are accused. – Charles I

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Regret & Remorse

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. – John Stuart Mill

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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. – Agnes De Mille

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Dancing