Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

Quote by Joseph Conrad

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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward upon the miseries and credulities of...

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward upon the miseries and credulities of...

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for...

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for...

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the...

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the...

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but...

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but...

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but...

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but...

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves,...

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves,...

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient,...

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient,...

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying...

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying...

It is respectable to have illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull

It is respectable to have illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory

All a man can betray is his conscience

All a man can betray is his conscience

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror?...

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror?...

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be...

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be...

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

Going home must be like going to render an account.

Going home must be like going to render an account.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of...

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of...