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The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.

J. R. R. Tolkien

And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many.
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Himself Kiss Romantic Sky
So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.
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End Fantasy Snow
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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Fairytale Safety True World
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
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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Anger Fantasy Quick
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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Alive End Friendship Himself Myself
But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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Darkness End Hope
Never laugh at live dragons.
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Fantasy Laughter Live
I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
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Evil Myself Tears
It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.
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Beyond Doubt End See
Fair speech may hide a foul heart.
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Fake Heart Hide Talk
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
You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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Fantasy Yourself
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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Book Mad Myself Opinion Reading Writing
For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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End One Liner Wisdom
Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
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Alone Memories Old Pay Wife Wisdom

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