The road goes ever on and on
J. R. R. TOLKIENThe world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
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I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
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False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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Not all those who wander are lost.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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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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