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If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

John Irving

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John Irving
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 2
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Exeter
New Hampshire
John Winslow Irving
Sin
Pride
Greatest
Moral

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