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Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.

Patrick Rothfuss

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Patrick Rothfuss
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: June 6
Novelist
Teacher
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Patrick James Rothfuss
Always
Lever
Levers
Nobility
Pride
Reason
Better

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