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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

Other quotes by Joseph Conrad

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience. – Joseph Conrad

Category:
Loyalty
Author
Joseph Conrad
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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

Category:
Despair
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Joseph Conrad
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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

Category:
Miscellaneous
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Joseph Conrad
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Other Quotes from
Vanity
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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt. – Benjamin Franklin

Category:
Vanity

Gray hairs are deaths blossoms. – English Proverb

Category:
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

Category:
Vanity

We speak little if not egged on by vanity. РFran̤ois de la Rochefoucauld

Category:
Vanity

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Land: A part of the earths surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure. – Ambrose Bierce

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