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Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?

Ken Follett

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Ken Follett
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: June 5
Author
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Writer
Cardiff
Wales
Kenneth Martin Follett
People
Manufacture
Already
Trouble
Much
World

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