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

Joseph Conrad

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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Community Crime Faith Kind Man Reality
I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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Afraid History Inspirational Myself Work Yourself
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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Devotion Human Leadership Nature Noble Revolution Selfish Victim
As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Achievement Build Rule
All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Desire Heart Leadership Oneself Road
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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Intellectual Kind Man Measurement Misery Universal
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Illusion Profit Respect Safety
A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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End Serene Simplicity Social Soul
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.
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Confession Courage Endurance Faith Generation Power Quality Sea Touch Truth
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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Art Aspiration Carry Condition Humble Justice Work
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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Aspiration Clear Existence Human Path Temper
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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Cruelty Discover Greatness Greedy History Occasion
Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Account Home Journey
But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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Earth Light Live Old Run
I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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Legs Mindset Myself Road
Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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Illusion Lonely Memories Misery Naked Terrorism True Word

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