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title: "2 Cork Learned Quotes by 1 author"
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> [“The bottom line was that people who leaned too heavily on someone else were setting themselves up for a terrible fall, and they had no one to blame in the end but themselves for the hurt they suffered. Cork had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-kent-krueger/the-bottom-line-was-that-people-who-leaned-too-heavily-on-someone/)

[William Kent Krueger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-kent-krueger/)

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> [ “He'd \[Cork\] learned early not to invest a lot of emotion in thinking about the truth in a crime. As a cop, he'd gathered evidfence that had been used to guess at the truth, but in the end responsibility for… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-kent-krueger/he-d-cork-learned-early-not-to-invest-a-lot-of-emotion-in-thinking/)

[William Kent Krueger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-kent-krueger/)

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