This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. (Joseph Conrad)

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.

Joseph Conrad

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