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Joseph Conrad Quotes: This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
         

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.


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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
         



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