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Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.

Gregory David Roberts

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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
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Novelist
Prosaist
Writer
Melbourne
Australia
Praise
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Back
Monstrously
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