Never laugh at live dragons.
J. R. R. TOLKIENIt’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
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I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me.
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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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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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And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
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I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.
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