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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

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Joseph Conrad
Age: 66 †
Born: 1857
Born: December 3
Died: 1924
Died: August 3
Author
Autobiographer
Essayist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Berdichev
Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
America
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Cruelty
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Greed
Discovery
Greatest
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History
Reckless

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