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• You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends. -- Joseph Conrad, "Lord Jim", 1900
• You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends. -- Joseph Conrad
• All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
  -- Joseph Conrad...
• Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality -- Joseph Conrad
• An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
  -- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Polish novelist, short story write...
• He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word.
  The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense....
• Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. -- Joseph Conrad
• The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary
  men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. -- Joseph Conrad...
• The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
  -- Joseph Conrad...