Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
J. R. R. TOLKIENFair speech may hide a foul heart.
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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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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.
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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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I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.
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Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, toothless bites, mouthless mutters.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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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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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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And then her heart changed, or at least she understood it; and the winter passed, and the sun shone upon her.
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I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
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Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.
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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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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
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