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A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
Mario Puzo
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Mario Puzo
Age: 78 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 15
Died: 1999
Died: July 2
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Diplomat
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Mario Cleri
Mario Gianluigi Puzo
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Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.
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A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
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ِAn offer you can't refuse.
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The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
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In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
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Santino, never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going soft from all that comedy you play with that young girl. Stop it and pay attention to business. Now get out of my sight.
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