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If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue.

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Jonathan Stroud
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 27
Novelist
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Jonathan Anthony Stroud
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