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Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.

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