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We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even wood will pierce the boldest belly, I can't say.

Janet Morris

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Janet Morris
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: May 25
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Janet Ellen Morris
Janet E. Morris
Even
Hot
Boldest
Men
Woods
Pierce
Price
Clay
Pay
Belly
Though
Wood
War
Steel
Nature
Soft
Hard
Twice

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