"There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as black diamonds. Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property." - Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad: There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific...

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"There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as black diamonds. Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property." - Joseph Conrad

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