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J. R. R. TOLKIENIf more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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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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It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.
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Short cuts make long delays.
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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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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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No Victory Without Suffering
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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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But in the end it’s only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.
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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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A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
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It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.
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The wise speak only of what they know
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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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May the hair on your toes never fall out!
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Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
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