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Oh for __hael__ sweet sake, girl, you think you can rule an empire without lying? You think your father didn__ lie? Or his father? Or any of your goldy-eyed great-great-founders of Annur? It__ built into the job. Bakers have flour, fishermen have nets, and leaders have lies.
Brian Staveley The Providence of Fire
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Oh for __hael__ sweet sake, girl, you think you can rule an empire without lying? You think your father didn__ lie? Or his father? Or any of your goldy-eyed great-great-founders of Annur? It__ built into the job. Bakers have flour, fishermen have nets, and leaders have lies.
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Brian Staveley

The Providence of Fire

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