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Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand.

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
Enemies
Distance
Discipline
Close
Enemy
Hand
Keep
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Partners

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Haste breeds error error breeds woe.
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I can start the rain. Bring thunder. Bring lightning. Want to see?
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Fight for life itself and everlasting freedom of the human spirit.
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