Short cuts make long delays.
J. R. R. TOLKIENI feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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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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Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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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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What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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Where there’s life there’s hope.
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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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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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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
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Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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