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When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

Robin Hobb

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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
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Apprentice
Fool
Wheat
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Motives
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Men
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Measure
Bushel
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Assassins

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