"As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs."
-Joseph Conrad
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"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.“
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"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
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"Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends."
-Joseph Conrad
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"Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life."
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"A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth."
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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."
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"Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task."
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"Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust."
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"We have only God on our side they have 'In God We Trust' on their side."
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"If global cooling will come soon - scientists will lose trust."
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