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What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?

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Henry Miller
Age: 88 †
Born: 1891
Born: December 26
Died: 1980
Died: June 7
Essayist
Novelist
Painter
Writer
New York City
New York
Genri Miller
Henri Miller
Phineas Flapdoodle
World
Delusion
Enlightenment
Insane
Maniacal
Offer
Loot
Offers
Recklessly
Activity
Plunder
Progress
Beside
Earth
Represents

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