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Any simpleton can speak with confidence. Sometimes the greatest fools have the most bravado.

Brandon Mull

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Brandon Mull
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: November 8
Novelist
Writer
Utah
United States
Speak
Sometimes
Simpleton
Simpletons
Bravado
Fools
Confidence
Fool
Greatest

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