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I have never known anyone else, Egwene said to him, who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon.

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Robert Jordan
Age: 58 †
Born: 1948
Born: October 17
Died: 2007
Died: September 16
Author
Military Officer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
Jr.
Never
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Anyone
Known
Else
Hard
Work

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Men forget, but never forgive women forgive, but never forget.
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I always get what I want in the end. And I think I want...ornamental ironwork. For the windows of my bedchamber.
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There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives to be perfect, so we ignored imperfections. Problems were magnified through inattention and war might have become inevitable if the Bore hadn't ever made.
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Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.
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