Any fool can carry on, but only the wise man knows how to shorten sail.
Joseph Conrad Quotes
There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
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Birth: | 3rd December, 1857 |
Death: | 3rd August, 1924 |
Nationality: | Polish |
Profession: | Novelist, Writer |
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