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It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

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So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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End Fantasy Snow
I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.
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Choice Myself
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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Fun Path Remember Safety Wild World
No Victory Without Suffering
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Suffering Victory
The road goes ever on and on
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Road Travel
Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Advice Danger Deep Gift Wisdom
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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Anger Fantasy Quick
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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Evil Myself Tears
For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
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Beautiful Beyond End Light Thinking
I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it’s very difficult to find anyone.’
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Adventure Difficult Myself
I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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Myself Revenge
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Book Mad Myself Opinion Reading Writing
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Food Gold Happiness Value World
In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Beyond Memories World
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Fairytale Safety True World
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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Dream Himself Season See Strange Time Vision Wild

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