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.
J. R. R. TOLKIENThere 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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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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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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I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.
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All’s well that ends better.
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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?
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Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.
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He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
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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 will not walk backward in life.
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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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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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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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