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It has been a hard lesson to learn, that greatness requires suffering.

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Kristin Cashore
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: June 10
Novelist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Greatness
Lessons
Suffering
Learn
Hard
Lesson
Requires

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