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It’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.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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Hope Life Need
I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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Habit Myself Old Present Talk Wisdom
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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Body Spirit Strength
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
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Deep Forget History Knowledge Lost
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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Book Mad Myself Opinion Reading Writing
In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
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Beyond Memories World
Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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Death Deserve End Himself Judgement Life Live Wisdom
I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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End Happiness Myself Togetherness
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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Adventure Difficult Myself
The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
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Death Horror Spiritual Time
I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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Growth Healing Love Myself
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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Food Gold Happiness Value World
The wise speak only of what they know
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Knowledge Talk Wisdom
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
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Advice Danger Deep Gift Wisdom
Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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Fake Heart Hide Talk
He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
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Dream Himself Season See Strange Time Vision Wild

It’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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