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The best fights are the ones you don't have, a wise man once said to me.

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Lee Child
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 29
Author
Film Actor
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Jim Grant
James D. Jim Grant
Men
Fights
Ones
Wise
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