I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
J. R. R. TOLKIENIn a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you’ve done since you left home.
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Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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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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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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