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And he’s right to say that every faction loses something when it gains a virtue: the Dauntless, brave but cruel the Erudite, intelligent but vain the Amity, peaceful but passive the Candor, honest but inconsiderate the Abnegation, selfless but stifling.

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
Brave
Candor
Intelligent
Factions
Amity
Loses
Selfless
Inconsiderate
Honest
Passive
Erudite
Virtue
Cruel
Faction
Right
Peaceful
Abnegation
Every
Vain
Dauntless
Something
Gains
Stifling

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though he does not touch me, he steadies me.
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