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We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Time
Mistake
People
Lives
Others
Human
Humans
Counted
Take
Notice
Really
Mistakes
Make
Cost

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