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Teach him how you will, a pig will never play the flute.

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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.
Wot
Flute
Flutes
Pigs
Teach
Play
Never

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Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result.
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If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.
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Men forget, but never forgive women forgive, but never forget.
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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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Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.
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