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It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.

J. R. R. Tolkien

You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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Fantasy Yourself
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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Laughter Live Man Sound Strange Voice
A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
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Fear Himself Man
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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Dragon Himself Leave Live Myself
The wise speak only of what they know
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Knowledge Talk Wisdom
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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Greatness See Tree Wake Up
I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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Feeling Myself
Don’t adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story.
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Adventure Carry End Story
May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
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Darkness Light Yourself
Don’t go where I can’t follow!
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Absence Myself Travel
It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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Healing Philosophy Revenge
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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Faith Greatness Live
End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path. One that we all must take.
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Death End Journey Path
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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Anger Fantasy Quick
Courage is found in unlikely places.
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Courage Place
The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.
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Philosophy World Yourself

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