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I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Book Mad Myself Opinion Reading Writing
I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to
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Habit Myself Old Present Talk Wisdom
Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and try to have patience, if you can.
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Fear Patience Try Yourself
For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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End One Liner Wisdom
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
I wished to be loved by another,’ [Éowyn] answered. ‘But I desire no man’s pity.
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Desire Kindness Love Man Myself
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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Darkness Faith Himself Road
I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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Deserve Myself Philosophy Yourself
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
The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it’s no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won’t come.
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Goodness Hope Quite Worry
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
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.
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Death Deserve Judgement Life Live
It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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Body Spirit Strength
The wise speak only of what they know
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Knowledge Talk Wisdom
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.
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Moon Sun Walk Wings Yourself

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