You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
J. R. R. TOLKIENNever laugh at live dragons.
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The wise speak only of what they know
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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Then Merry heard of all sounds in that hour the strangest. It seemed that Dernhelm laughed, and the clear voice was like the ring of steel. But no living man am I!
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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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