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The wise speak only of what they know

J. R. R. Tolkien

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not wrecked by the frost.
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Gold Lost Old Philosophy Strong
Never laugh at live dragons.
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Fantasy Laughter Live
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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Business Danger Road
The 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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Darkness Greatness Grief Growth Love Place World
It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.
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Art Enemy Goodness Sick
What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!’
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Fantasy Himself
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
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
Where there’s life there’s hope, and need of vittles.
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Hope Life Need
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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Darkness Faith Himself Road
In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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Fantasy Live
From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.
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Break Light Power Wake Up
Come, Mr. Frodo!’ he cried. ‘I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you.
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Carry Fantasy Himself Romantic Yourself
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
You have nice manners for a thief and a liar, said the dragon.
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Fantasy Yourself
False hopes are more dangerous than fears.
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Danger Fear Hope

The wise speak only of what they know

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