It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitt…

Joseph Conrad
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. ✨ Joseph Conrad (1915). Wisdom and Beauty from Conrad: Selected and Arranged by M. Harriet M. Capes
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