I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.
J. R. R. TOLKIENDo not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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All’s well that ends better.
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And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge.
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The road goes ever on and on
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There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
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Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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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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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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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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I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam.
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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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The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.
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