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You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.

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Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Age: 57 †
Born: 1909
Born: March 6
Died: 1966
Died: May 7
Aphorist
Poet
Writer
Lemberg
Austria
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Luck
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Eskimo
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