There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousn…

Joseph Conrad
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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. ✨ Joseph Conrad (2013). Nostromo, p.274, Courier Corporation
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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. ✨ Joseph Conrad (2013). Nostromo, p.274, Courier Corporation

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