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Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

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Robin Hobb
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Berkeley
California
Margaret Astrid Lindholm Ogden
Megan Lindholm
Margaret Astrid Lindholm
Glove
Cloaks
Fist
Velvet
Gloves
Diplomacy
Fists
Power

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