Wikiquote:Quote of the day/December 3, 2013

 


Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

~ Joseph Conrad ~
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~ The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' ~