To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts.... I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully. - Joseph Conrad

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Joseph Conrad: "To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts.... I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully."

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Affairs	Against	Busy	Carefully
Doubts	Experience	Fears	Fellow
Material	Occupied	Preservative	Proposing
Razor	Reflection	Relief	Sort
Stropping	Suppose	Throat	While

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