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Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.

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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Mistakes
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the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.
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