Going home must be like going to render an account.
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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.Joseph Conrad
The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits.
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The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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He was obeyed, yet he inspired neither love nor fear, nor even respect. He inspired uneasiness. That was it
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