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Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.

Terry Goodkind

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Terry Goodkind
Age: 72 †
Born: 1948
Born: January 14
Died: 2020
Died: September 17
Novelist
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Terry Lee Goodkind
Honesty
Blind
Honor
Duty
Wish

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