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If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.

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Robert Jordan
Age: 58 †
Born: 1948
Born: October 17
Died: 2007
Died: September 16
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Military Officer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
Jr.
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Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. -- Mat Cauthon
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If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.
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