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If there is one thing I will not abide it is the folly of a willful pride.

Patrick Rothfuss

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
Pride
Thing
Willful
Abide
Folly

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