It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
J. R. R. TOLKIENA safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
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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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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
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The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.
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Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do.
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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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I will not walk backward in life.
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I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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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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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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Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
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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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There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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