"Protection is the first necessity of opulence and…" — Joseph Conrad

"Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury."

— Joseph Conrad

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235 Quotes by Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad has 235 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which…
It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
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The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends,…
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human,…
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a…
Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if…
A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.

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More First Necessity Quotes

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Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country. — Thomas Jefferson
If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second. — Edward Bellamy
Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
If I slip into the place that can be filled by Christ alone, making myself the first necessity to a… — Amy Carmichael
The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the… — Thomas Jefferson
Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled… — Theodore Roosevelt
Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will… — Thomas A. Edison
Discontent is the first necessity of progress. — Thomas A. Edison
Faith—is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not— Too slender for the eye… — Emily Dickinson
Up until now you have lived as a chaos, a crowd. Yoga means now you will have to be a… — Osho

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