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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Joseph Conrad?
→ Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do.
→ Gray is the color of truth.
→ It is not the clear-sighted who lead the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm, mental fog.
→ Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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Pick the quote attributed to Joseph Conrad.
→ I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than alone in the light.
→ The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
→ The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
→ It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
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Select the quotation attributed to Joseph Conrad.
→ If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.
→ A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
→ You can tell the values of a nation by its advertisements.
→ All a man can betray is his conscience.
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One of these may be attributed to Joseph Conrad. Which one?
→ There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
→ Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.
→ Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
→ To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.
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Which one of these belongs to Joseph Conrad?
→ Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
→ Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
→ The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
→ We boil at different degrees.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Joseph Conrad?
→ Facing it — always facing it — that's the way to get through. Face it.
→ You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
→ It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
→ I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Joseph Conrad.
→ I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
→ Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
→ Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
→ Before I speak, I have something important to say.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Joseph Conrad. Which one?
→ In a separation it is the one who is not really in love who says the more tender things.
→ Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.
→ Never test another man by your own weakness.
→ You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Joseph Conrad?
→ The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.
→ There are moments when everything goes well, but don’t be frightened.
→ Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.
→ As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Joseph Conrad.
→ You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
→ You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
→ Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretense of it saps the very foundation of character.
→ Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
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Looks like Joseph Conrad is the author of one of these.
→ Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
→ 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.
→ One moment on the battlefield is worth a thousand years of peace.
→ I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Joseph Conrad.
→ Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
→ A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
→ All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
→ Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
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Which one should be attributed to Joseph Conrad?
→ Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.
→ We don’t understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it.
→ Never test another man by your own weakness.
→ It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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