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As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

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Joseph Conrad
Age: 66 †
Born: 1857
Born: December 3
Died: 1924
Died: August 3
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Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
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