“If you are to be so emotionally wounded when you are bested in battle, then perhaps you would do well to hone your skills.”

— R. A. Salvatore , book Road of the Patriarch

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American writer 1959

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“If you are to be so emotionally wounded when you are bested in battle, then perhaps you would do well to hone your skills.”

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